Constituency
5. Dinhata
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-DINHATA
INC 45.1%won by 4.5%FBL 40.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.4% to 4.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.8% between them, down from 97.5% — 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
53,715
Margin
2,426
4.52%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1JOGESH CHANDRA SARKARIndian National Congress · INC24,24945.1%
- 2KAMAL KANTI GUHAFBL · FBL21,82340.6%
- 3MANI GOPAL ROYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,9299.2%
- 4JAHIRUDDIN MIANCO · NCO2,7145.1%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–FBL swing
- −4.9%
- INC share
- 53.5% → 45.1%
- FBL share
- 44.1% → 40.6%
- Turnout
- — → —