Constituency
23. Siliguri
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-SILIGURI
INC 50.6%won by 20.7%CPM 29.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: IGL (IGL) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 20.7%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 38.8% to 50.6% of the vote here (+11.8%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 29.9% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.5% between them, down from 96.1% — 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
41,044
Margin
8,496
20.70%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1ARUN KUMAR MOITRAIndian National Congress · INC20,76450.6%
- 2BIREN BOSECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM12,26829.9%
- 3RAMJIT CHATTERJEECommunist Party of India · CPI5,64513.8%
- 4PADAWA LAWAIndependent · IND1,3393.3%
- 5PANCHANAN TALUKDERIndependent · IND1,0282.5%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- IGL
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- −18.1%
- INC share
- 38.8% → 50.6%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 29.9%
- Turnout
- — → —