Constituency
119. Naihati
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-NAIHATI
CPM 54.4%won by 16.2%IND 38.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 12.5% to 16.2%.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 38.2% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 92.6% between them, down from 98.8% — 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
68,308
Margin
11,060
16.19%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1GOPAL BASUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM37,15354.4%
- 2TARAPADA MUKHOBADHYAYIndependent · IND26,09338.2%
- 3GOLOKESH BHATTARCHARJEENCO · NCO2,5423.7%
- 4RANJIT KUMAR DFYSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP8581.3%
- 5DINESH CHANDRA DASBAC · BAC6911.0%
- 6GOUR SUNDER BASUIndependent · IND5530.8%
- 7RANJIT KUMAR BATTACHARJEEIndependent · IND4180.6%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–IND swing
- −39.4%
- CPM share
- 55.6% → 54.4%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 38.2%
- Turnout
- — → —