Constituency
20. Kalimpong
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-KALIMPONG
IGL 38.1%won by 12.1%IND 26.0%
What changed here
DerivedIGL held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.4% to 12.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 17.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.1% between them, down from 94.9% — 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
28,377
Margin
3,422
12.06%
Candidates
5 contested · winner IGL- 1MADAN KUMAR PRODHANIGL · IGL10,81038.1%
- 2PADMA LAKSHMI SUBBAIndependent · IND7,38826.0%
- 3SONAM WANGDI RHOTIAIndian National Congress · INC4,84117.1%
- 4RAMA SHANKAR PROSADCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,71816.6%
- 5BASANT KUMAR DAHALIndependent · IND6202.2%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- IGL
- Winner now
- IGL
- IGL–IND swing
- −40.8%
- IGL share
- 55.1% → 38.1%
- IND share
- 2.2% → 26.0%
- Turnout
- — → —