Constituency
35. Tapan
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-TAPAN
INC 42.5%won by 6.8%RSP 35.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Rashtriya Sarvajan Party (RSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 6.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 47.4% to 42.5% of the vote here (−4.9%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.2% between them, down from 98.7% — 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
51,731
Margin
3,525
6.81%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1PATRASH HEMRAMIndian National Congress · INC21,98142.5%
- 2ORAON BANDHURashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP18,45635.7%
- 3DIBU MUKMUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM7,42914.4%
- 4RABINDRA NATH MURUMCommunist Party of India · CPI3,1036.0%
- 5HAKAI MARDINCO · NCO7621.5%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–RSP swing
- +10.7%
- INC share
- 47.4% → 42.5%
- RSP share
- 51.3% → 35.7%
- Turnout
- — → —