Constituency
70. Krishnagar West
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-KRISHNAGAR-WEST
CPM 50.8%won by 24.7%INC 26.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.7% to 24.7%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.8% between them, down from 90.7% — the field split more ways.
- 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
39,383
Margin
9,746
24.75%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1AMRITENDU MUKHERJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM20,00350.8%
- 2BHATTACHARYA MOHADER CHANDRIndian National Congress · INC10,25726.0%
- 3DEPESH SINHACommunist Party of India · CPI4,39011.1%
- 4MD. MOZAMMEL HOQUF NANDAISML · SML2,2045.6%
- 5BIJON KUMAR CHAKRAVORTYBAC · BAC1,4543.7%
- 6AMULYA KUMAAR SAHANCO · NCO8712.2%
- 7SATYA SARAN MAJUMDARIndependent · IND2040.5%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +14.1%
- CPM share
- 50.7% → 50.8%
- INC share
- 40.0% → 26.0%
- Turnout
- — → —