Constituency
1. Mekliganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-MEKLIGANJ
FBL 43.9%won by 8.6%INC 35.3%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.8% to 8.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.2% between them, down from 98.9% — the field split more ways.
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
45,290
Margin
3,898
8.61%
Candidates
5 contested · winner FBL- 1MIHIR KUMAR RAYFBL · FBL19,88043.9%
- 2MANI BHUSHAN ROYIndian National Congress · INC15,98235.3%
- 3KSHIR PRASAD BARMANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,9968.8%
- 4TARA PRASANNA RAY BASUNTANCO · NCO3,7458.3%
- 5SUDHANGSHU KUMAR ROY SARKARIndependent · IND1,6873.7%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–INC swing
- +2.8%
- FBL share
- 52.4% → 43.9%
- INC share
- 46.6% → 35.3%
- Turnout
- — → —