Constituency
65. Tehatta
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-TEHATTA
CPM 46.5%won by 25.1%INC 21.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 25.1%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.9% between them, down from 97.1% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered5 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
43,842
Margin
10,993
25.07%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1MADHABENDU MOHANTACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM20,38346.5%
- 2KHAN SURAT ALIIndian National Congress · INC9,39021.4%
- 3KAZI MD. MOWLA BOKSHIndependent · IND8,18818.7%
- 4AJIT MOHAN MALLIKBAC · BAC2,3975.5%
- 5BISWANATH AGARWADANCO · NCO2,3125.3%
- 6SIRANTA KUMAR KHANIndependent · IND1,1722.7%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +32.3%
- CPM share
- 44.9% → 46.5%
- INC share
- 52.2% → 21.4%
- Turnout
- — → —