Constituency
247. Asansol
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-ASANSOL
CPM 55.8%won by 14.8%INC 41.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 14.8%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 33.9% to 55.8% of the vote here (+21.9%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.9% of the vote between them, up from 78.9% — 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
44,116
Margin
6,538
14.82%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPMSince 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +25.9%
- CPM share
- 33.9% → 55.8%
- INC share
- 45.0% → 41.0%
- Turnout
- — → —