Constituency
255. Galsi
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-GALSI
IND 66.1%won by 32.2%INC 33.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin widened from 22.8% to 32.2%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 92.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatIndependent won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
42,056
Margin
13,544
32.20%
Candidates
2 contested · winner IND- 1PHAKIR CHANDRA ROYIndependent · IND27,80066.1%
- 2SUDHIR KUMAR CHATTERJEEIndian National Congress · INC14,25633.9%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–INC swing
- +9.4%
- IND share
- 57.6% → 66.1%
- INC share
- 34.8% → 33.9%
- Turnout
- — → —