Constituency
104. Garden Reach
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-GARDEN-REACH
INC 34.2%won by 0.2%CPM 34.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 0.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 17.7% to 34.2% of the vote here (+16.4%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 34.0% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.1% between them, down from 76.7% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
45,627
Margin
89
0.20%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1S M. ABDULIAMIndian National Congress · INC15,58234.2%
- 2CHHEDI LALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM15,49334.0%
- 3ARUN SENCommunist Party of India · CPI12,64927.7%
- 4MD ABDUL BAGTIndependent · IND1,3933.1%
- 5RAM SARANRPI · RPI5101.1%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- −17.5%
- INC share
- 17.7% → 34.2%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 34.0%
- Turnout
- — → —