Constituency
91. Gosaba
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-GOSABA
RSP 43.7%won by 1.7%INC 42.1%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.5% to 1.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 16.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.8% between them, down from 98.6% — 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
53,883
Margin
908
1.69%
Candidates
7 contested · winner RSP- 1GANESH CHANDRA MONDALRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP23,57143.7%
- 2PARESH CHANDRA BAIDYAIndian National Congress · INC22,66342.1%
- 3KALIPATARU BARMANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM5,48210.2%
- 4KAMALAPADA MONDALBharatiya Bahujan Congress · BBC6531.2%
- 5KRISHNA PADA MALIBAC · BAC5841.1%
- 6RAMAN NATH PATROSUC · SUC5841.1%
- 7CHANDRA KANTA SARKARIndependent · IND3460.6%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- RSP
- RSP–INC swing
- −19.9%
- RSP share
- 60.1% → 43.7%
- INC share
- 38.5% → 42.1%
- Turnout
- — → —