Constituency
8. Tufanganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-TUFANGANJ
INC 52.8%won by 18.6%CPM 34.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.1% to 18.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.0% between them, down from 98.1% — 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
54,295
Margin
10,105
18.61%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1SISHIR KUMAR ISOREIndian National Congress · INC28,67852.8%
- 2MANINDRANATH BARMACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM18,57334.2%
- 3DOL MOHAN PAKHADHARAFBL · FBL4,5568.4%
- 4NARENDRA BARMANNCO · NCO2,4884.6%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- −1.5%
- INC share
- 59.1% → 52.8%
- CPM share
- 39.0% → 34.2%
- Turnout
- — → —