Constituency
114. Mathurapur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-MATHURAPUR
SUC 41.8%won by 11.2%INC 30.6%
What changed here
DerivedSUC held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.5% to 11.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.4% 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
58,364
Margin
6,528
11.18%
Candidates
7 contested · winner SUC- 1RENUPADA HALDARSUC · SUC24,40341.8%
- 2BIRRENDRA NARTH HALDARIndian National Congress · INC17,87530.6%
- 3HRISHIKESH HALDARBAC · BAC5,4569.3%
- 4BULAI ROYIndependent · IND5,4299.3%
- 5SUBHASH CHANDRA ROYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,9555.1%
- 6ANADI MOHAN TANTINCO · NCO1,5512.7%
- 7NIRAPADA HALDARIndependent · IND6951.2%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- SUC
- Winner now
- SUC
- SUC–INC swing
- +8.7%
- SUC share
- 50.9% → 41.8%
- INC share
- 48.4% → 30.6%
- Turnout
- — → —