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54. Jalangi

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1971

WB-JALANGI

BJS 33.0%won by 0.3%IND 32.7%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), which now leads by 0.3%.

  • BJS vote shareBJS went from 26.4% to 33.0% of the vote here (+6.6%).
  • Knife-edgeDecided by 103 votes (0.29%) — among the closest results anywhere.
  • Multi-cornered4 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
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not in source
Valid votes
35,338
Margin
103
0.29%

Candidates

4 contested · winner BJS
  1. 1PRAFULLA KUMAR SARKARBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS11,66033.0%
  2. 2AHAMMAD FAHYMUDDINIndependent · IND11,55732.7%
  3. 3ATAHAR RAHAMANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM6,25917.7%
  4. 4AZIZUR RAHMANIndian National Congress · INC5,86216.6%

Since 1969

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
BJSflipped
BJS–IND swing
+1.2%
BJS share
26.4% → 33.0%
IND share
27.3% → 32.7%
Turnout
— → —
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