Constituency
49. Sagardighi
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-SAGARDIGHI
INC 29.1%won by 6.9%RSP 22.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: BAC (BAC) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 6.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 40.0% to 29.1% of the vote here (−10.9%).
- New challengerRashtriya Sarvajan Party (RSP) finished second with 22.2% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 51.4% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
23,679
Margin
1,635
6.90%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1ATUL CHANDRA SARKARIndian National Congress · INC6,89829.1%
- 2DASJOYCHANDRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP5,26322.2%
- 3RABIDAS JATINDRA NATHIndependent · IND3,76115.9%
- 4DHIRENDRA NATH DASBAC · BAC3,52914.9%
- 5SUDHARSAN DHARI SAHAIndependent · IND3,35014.1%
- 6KUBER CHAND HALDERIndependent · IND5792.4%
- 7SARKAR NWIJAPADANCO · NCO2991.3%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- BAC
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–RSP swing
- −33.1%
- INC share
- 40.0% → 29.1%
- RSP share
- 0.0% → 22.2%
- Turnout
- — → —