Constituency
79. Bongaon
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-BONGAON
CPI 44.9%won by 6.5%CPM 38.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 14.4% to 6.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 38.4% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.4% between them, down from 98.4% — 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
44,904
Margin
2,910
6.48%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPI- 1AJIT KUMAR GANGULYCommunist Party of India · CPI20,17244.9%
- 2RANJIT MITRACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM17,26238.4%
- 3NIRMAL RAI CHOUDHARIBAC · BAC4,93311.0%
- 4SHYAM PADA BISWASNCO · NCO2,5375.6%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–CPM swing
- −49.9%
- CPI share
- 56.4% → 44.9%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 38.4%
- Turnout
- — → —