Constituency
61. Khargram
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-KHARGRAM
INC 26.7%won by 0.1%CPM 26.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Rashtriya Sarvajan Party (RSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 0.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 30.9% to 26.7% of the vote here (−4.2%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 26.6% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 53.3% between them, down from 85.0% — 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
35,805
Margin
19
0.05%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1NARENDRA HALDARIndian National Congress · INC9,55726.7%
- 2DINABANDHU HAJHICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM9,53826.6%
- 3GURU PADA DASIndependent · IND4,83013.5%
- 4SAMAPENDRA KUMAR CHOUDHURYCommunist Party of India · CPI4,52212.6%
- 5SHANKARI PRASAD DASSRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP4,34312.1%
- 6JITENDRA NATH MANDALBAC · BAC2,0665.8%
- 7MONDAL SUDHIR KUMARNCO · NCO9492.7%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- −30.8%
- INC share
- 30.9% → 26.7%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 26.6%
- Turnout
- — → —