Constituency
94. Basanti
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-BASANTI
INC 31.5%won by 6.0%CPM 25.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Rashtriya Sarvajan Party (RSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 6.0%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 35.6% to 31.5% of the vote here (−4.1%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 25.4% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 56.9% between them, down from 74.6% — 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
56,035
Margin
3,390
6.05%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1PANCHANAN SINHAIndian National Congress · INC17,64331.5%
- 2DAUD KHANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM14,25325.4%
- 3ASHOKE CHANDHURIRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP12,35422.0%
- 4MIA SOLEMAN ALIIndependent · IND9,59617.1%
- 5AJIT KUMAR NASKARSUC · SUC2,1893.9%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- −29.6%
- INC share
- 35.6% → 31.5%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 25.4%
- Turnout
- — → —