Constituency
42. Englishbazar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-ENGLISHBAZAR
CPI 31.6%won by 4.9%BJS 26.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 22.8% to 4.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 23.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 58.3% between them, down from 86.7% — 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
45,229
Margin
2,227
4.92%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPISince 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–BJS swing
- −38.1%
- CPI share
- 54.8% → 31.6%
- BJS share
- 11.7% → 26.7%
- Turnout
- — → —