Constituency
31. Kushmandi
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-KUSHMANDI
INC 52.9%won by 34.2%CPI 18.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.0% to 34.2%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.7% between them, down from 99.2% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered4 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
39,649
Margin
13,548
34.17%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INCSince 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- +33.2%
- INC share
- 50.1% → 52.9%
- CPI share
- 49.1% → 18.8%
- Turnout
- — → —