Constituency
68. Chapra
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-CHAPRA
CPM 41.1%won by 22.3%IND 18.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: BAC (BAC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 22.3%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 41.1% of the vote here (+41.1%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 18.8% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 59.9% between them, down from 80.2% — 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
41,495
Margin
9,243
22.27%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1SAHABUDDIN MONDALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM17,04741.1%
- 2ABU BAKKAR MONDALIndependent · IND7,80418.8%
- 3BISWANATH BRAHMABAC · BAC7,34817.7%
- 4JAGANNATH MORUMDERIndian National Congress · INC6,98916.8%
- 5PROMOUD RANJAN SIRCARNCO · NCO2,3075.6%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- BAC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–IND swing
- +22.3%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 41.1%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 18.8%
- Turnout
- — → —