Constituency
99. Sonarpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-SONARPUR
CPM 54.2%won by 28.9%CPI 25.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 14.5% to 28.9%.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 25.4% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.6% between them, down from 99.3% — 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
55,352
Margin
15,971
28.85%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPMSince 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–CPI swing
- −28.0%
- CPM share
- 56.9% → 54.2%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 25.4%
- Turnout
- — → —