Constituency
58. Berhampore
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-BERHAMPORE
INC 44.3%won by 24.6%CPM 19.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 24.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 22.9% to 44.3% of the vote here (+21.4%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 19.7% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.0% between them, down from 71.6% — 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
37,944
Margin
9,352
24.65%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1SANKAR DAS PAUIIndian National Congress · INC16,82444.3%
- 2PRAN RANJAN CHOWDHURYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM7,47219.7%
- 3DEBABRATA BANDOPADHYAYRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP5,46714.4%
- 4SKABU ARU TAIIBIndependent · IND4,08110.8%
- 5SANAT KUMAR RAHACommunist Party of India · CPI3,2368.5%
- 6AMAR NEOGINCO · NCO8642.3%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +1.7%
- INC share
- 22.9% → 44.3%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 19.7%
- Turnout
- — → —