Constituency
37. Gajol
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-GAJOL
CPM 44.6%won by 10.4%BAC 34.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 10.4%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 40.6% to 44.6% of the vote here (+4.1%).
- New challengerBAC (BAC) finished second with 34.3% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.9% between them, down from 92.7% — 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
43,117
Margin
4,466
10.36%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1SUPHAL MURMUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM19,24344.6%
- 2BENJAMIN HEMBROMBAC · BAC14,77734.3%
- 3LAKSHMAN SORENNCO · NCO5,23412.1%
- 4BUDHRAI BESRACommunist Party of India · CPI3,8639.0%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–BAC swing
- −30.2%
- CPM share
- 40.6% → 44.6%
- BAC share
- 0.0% → 34.3%
- Turnout
- — → —