Constituency
92. Sandeshkhali
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-SANDESHKHALI
CPM 40.7%won by 0.1%INC 40.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 24.7% to 0.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 19.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.3% between them, down from 96.4% — 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
49,289
Margin
47
0.10%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPMSince 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −24.6%
- CPM share
- 60.6% → 40.7%
- INC share
- 35.9% → 40.6%
- Turnout
- — → —