Constituency
116. Kakdwip
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-KAKDWIP
CPM 44.7%won by 26.1%NCO 18.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 26.1%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 18.5% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 63.2% between them, down from 94.1% — 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
62,196
Margin
16,253
26.13%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1HRISHIKESH MAITYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM27,77544.7%
- 2HANASDWAJ DHARANCO · NCO11,52218.5%
- 3BADUNB BAUTYAIndian National Congress · INC9,29814.9%
- 4ASHOK KUMAR SAMANTABAC · BAC7,17411.5%
- 5KHAGEN ROY CHOWDHURYCommunist Party of India · CPI6,42710.3%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–NCO swing
- −18.2%
- CPM share
- 44.4% → 44.7%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 18.5%
- Turnout
- — → —