Constituency
279. Nalhati
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-NALHATI
IND 53.7%won by 20.9%INC 32.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.4% to 20.9%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.6% of the vote between them, up from 50.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
30,114
Margin
6,282
20.86%
Candidates
5 contested · winner IND- 1GOLAM MAMIUDDINIndependent · IND16,18053.7%
- 2SYED SHAH MAIJNUL HUQUEIndian National Congress · INC9,89832.9%
- 3G.N. CHATTOPADHYAYIndependent · IND2,1707.2%
- 4BALARAM CHATTERJEELKD · LKD1,3334.4%
- 5NARAYAN CHANDRA MANDALPBI · PBI5331.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–INC swing
- +16.5%
- IND share
- 27.4% → 53.7%
- INC share
- 23.0% → 32.9%
- Turnout
- — → —