Constituency
71. Krishnagar East
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-KRISHNAGAR-EAST
IND 48.9%won by 17.1%CPM 31.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 17.1%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 1.6% to 48.9% of the vote here (+47.2%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 31.7% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.6% between them, down from 95.6% — 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
37,122
Margin
6,354
17.12%
Candidates
3 contested · winner IND- 1KASHI KANTA MATTRAIndependent · IND18,13948.9%
- 2SADHAN CHATTOPADHYAYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM11,78531.7%
- 3NARENDRA NATH SARKARNCO · NCO7,19819.4%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–CPM swing
- +15.5%
- IND share
- 1.6% → 48.9%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 31.7%
- Turnout
- — → —