Constituency
15. Nagrakata
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-NAGRAKATA
CPM 57.8%won by 33.6%INC 24.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 33.6%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 40.3% to 57.8% of the vote here (+17.5%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.0% between them, down from 88.8% — 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
39,456
Margin
13,269
33.63%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1PUNAI ORAONCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM22,81157.8%
- 2AZIOS LAKRAIndian National Congress · INC9,54224.2%
- 3SOMA ORAONIndependent · IND4,96212.6%
- 4MANGOU BHAGATIndependent · IND1,5253.9%
- 5ARJUN MAHALINCO · NCO6161.6%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +41.9%
- CPM share
- 40.3% → 57.8%
- INC share
- 48.6% → 24.2%
- Turnout
- — → —