Constituency
96. Kultali
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-KULTALI
SUC 44.2%won by 2.2%INC 42.0%
What changed here
DerivedSUC held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 6.4% to 2.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.2% between them, down from 98.4% — 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
60,396
Margin
1,341
2.22%
Candidates
5 contested · winner SUC- 1PDRABODH PURKAITSUC · SUC26,70544.2%
- 2ARABINDA NASKARIndian National Congress · INC25,36442.0%
- 3GANGADHAR NASKARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM7,72312.8%
- 4BHARAT CHANDRA HALDERNCO · NCO3740.6%
- 5BISWAROTI ROY MONDALBAC · BAC2300.4%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- SUC
- Winner now
- SUC
- SUC–INC swing
- −4.2%
- SUC share
- 52.4% → 44.2%
- INC share
- 46.0% → 42.0%
- Turnout
- — → —