Constituency
244. Hirapur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-HIRAPUR
CPM 57.8%won by 15.6%INC 42.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 15.6%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 36.5% to 57.8% of the vote here (+21.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 74.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
43,872
Margin
6,840
15.59%
Candidates
2 contested · winner CPMSince 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +17.4%
- CPM share
- 36.5% → 57.8%
- INC share
- 38.3% → 42.2%
- Turnout
- — → —