Constituency
81. Ashokenagar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-ASHOKENAGAR
CPM 43.1%won by 10.8%INC 32.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 10.8%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 43.1% of the vote here (+43.1%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.4% between them, down from 87.9% — 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
48,509
Margin
5,254
10.83%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1NANI KARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM20,90943.1%
- 2KESHAB CHANDRA BHATTACHARYAIndian National Congress · INC15,65532.3%
- 3SADHAN KUMAR SENCommunist Party of India · CPI10,63321.9%
- 4AZIZAR RAHAMAN DAFADARNCO · NCO1,0222.1%
- 5ARUN RAICHAUDHURIIndependent · IND2900.6%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +42.2%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 43.1%
- INC share
- 31.4% → 32.3%
- Turnout
- — → —