Constituency
10. Kalchini
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-KALCHINI
INC 38.8%won by 7.0%PSP 31.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 27.5% to 7.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 24.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerPraja Socialist Party (PSP) finished second with 31.7% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.5% between them, down from 98.8% — 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
27,555
Margin
1,938
7.03%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1DENIS LAKRAIndian National Congress · INC10,68138.8%
- 2JOHN ARTHER BAXIA URAONPraja Socialist Party · PSP8,74331.7%
- 3MINJ PHILARRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP5,15618.7%
- 4EMANUONMELMON KUJURFBL · FBL2,2398.1%
- 5RABINDRA KUMAR BRAHMANCO · NCO3701.3%
- 6RABINDRA NATH CHAMPRAMARYIndependent · IND3661.3%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–PSP swing
- −56.1%
- INC share
- 63.2% → 38.8%
- PSP share
- 0.0% → 31.7%
- Turnout
- — → —