Constituency
125. Kamarhati
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-KAMARHATI
CPM 67.7%won by 41.6%CPI 26.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 30.9% to 41.6%.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 26.1% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 93.9% between them, down from 99.2% — 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
69,911
Margin
29,087
41.61%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPMSince 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–CPI swing
- −23.4%
- CPM share
- 65.0% → 67.7%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 26.1%
- Turnout
- — → —