Election
Constituency

34. Balurghat

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1971

WB-BALURGHAT

INC 46.1%won by 4.0%RSP 42.1%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Rashtriya Sarvajan Party (RSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 4.0%.

  • INC vote shareINC went from 36.2% to 46.1% of the vote here (+9.9%).
  • 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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not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
54,483
Margin
2,168
3.98%

Candidates

6 contested · winner INC
  1. 1BIRESWAR ROYIndian National Congress · INC25,10946.1%
  2. 2JATIN CHAKRABORTYRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP22,94142.1%
  3. 3CHATTOPADHAY JYOTIRMOYCommunist Party of India · CPI3,9607.3%
  4. 4CHANDURI DILIP KUMARBAC · BAC1,4272.6%
  5. 5CHUNILAL NEDGIIndependent · IND9331.7%
  6. 6ARUN BANERJEEIndependent · IND1130.2%

Since 1969

Derived
Winner then
RSP
Winner now
INCflipped
INC–RSP swing
+24.5%
INC share
36.2% → 46.1%
RSP share
56.7% → 42.1%
Turnout
— → —
33. Kumarganj35. Tapan
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