Constituency
88. Basirhat
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-BASIRHAT
INC 49.4%won by 28.3%CPM 21.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 28.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 44.4% to 49.4% of the vote here (+5.1%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 21.1% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.6% between them, down from 95.5% — 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
36,440
Margin
10,304
28.28%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1LALIT KUMAR GHOSHIndian National Congress · INC18,00949.4%
- 2NARAYAN MUKHERJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM7,70521.1%
- 3MD. SIDDIQUE AHMADIndependent · IND5,05013.9%
- 4ARUN KUMAR BASUCommunist Party of India · CPI4,95313.6%
- 5MONATAT ALI MONDALNCO · NCO7232.0%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- −16.1%
- INC share
- 44.4% → 49.4%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 21.1%
- Turnout
- — → —