Constituency
9. Kumargram
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-KUMARGRAM
INC 43.9%won by 22.8%CPM 21.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 13.6% to 22.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.0% between them, down from 82.7% — 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
37,823
Margin
8,635
22.83%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1PIJUSH KANTI MUKHERJEEIndian National Congress · INC16,61943.9%
- 2NETAI CHANDRA DASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM7,98421.1%
- 3ANIMA HMARENCO · NCO4,08910.8%
- 4SURESH TALUKDARRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP4,08310.8%
- 5DHIRENDRA CHANDRA SARKERFBL · FBL3,2618.6%
- 6BENJAMIN SORENIndependent · IND9942.6%
- 7KARJI LALIT MOHANIndependent · IND7932.1%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- +9.2%
- INC share
- 48.2% → 43.9%
- CPM share
- 34.5% → 21.1%
- Turnout
- — → —