Constituency
24. Phansidewa
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-PHANSIDEWA
INC 43.8%won by 10.4%CPM 33.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 24.8% to 10.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
44,013
Margin
4,581
10.41%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1ISWAR CHANDRA TIRKEYIndian National Congress · INC19,25943.8%
- 2PATRAS MINZCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM14,67833.3%
- 3GOPAL HANSDAFBL · FBL3,4157.8%
- 4ORAON MARIANUS TIGGABAC · BAC2,1694.9%
- 5JOSEPH KUNDARashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP1,9684.5%
- 6TIMBA ORAONNCO · NCO1,7994.1%
- 7ANJULUSH MURMUIndependent · IND7251.6%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- −14.4%
- INC share
- 53.4% → 43.8%
- CPM share
- 28.6% → 33.3%
- Turnout
- — → —