Constituency
6. Cooch Behar North
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-COOCH-BEHAR-NORTH
INC 49.6%won by 14.9%CPM 34.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: FBL (FBL) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 14.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 46.1% to 49.6% of the vote here (+3.5%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 34.7% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.2% between them, down from 97.0% — 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
51,357
Margin
7,665
14.92%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1SUNIL KARIndian National Congress · INC25,46549.6%
- 2SHIRENDRA NARAYAN CHOUDHURYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM17,80034.7%
- 3MOHITLAL CHAKARABORTYFBL · FBL6,45512.6%
- 4DWIJENDRA ARAYAN DUTTNCO · NCO1,0752.1%
- 5PALIAB DAS GUPTABAC · BAC5621.1%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- −31.1%
- INC share
- 46.1% → 49.6%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 34.7%
- Turnout
- — → —