Constituency
106. Budge Budge
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-BUDGE-BUDGE
CPM 60.6%won by 31.4%CPI 29.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 22.2% to 31.4%.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 29.2% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 89.8% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
53,430
Margin
16,797
31.44%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1KHITIBHUSAN ROY BARMANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM32,39960.6%
- 2SAD IMANI BAGCommunist Party of India · CPI15,60229.2%
- 3RABI CHOWDHURYIndependent · IND2,6455.0%
- 4MAHABIR PRASAD SHAUBAC · BAC1,4872.8%
- 5AJIT KUMAR CHAKRABORTYNCO · NCO1,2972.4%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–CPI swing
- −29.7%
- CPM share
- 61.1% → 60.6%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 29.2%
- Turnout
- — → —