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Constituency

128. Cossipur

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1971

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INC 59.7%won by 23.3%CPM 36.4%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 23.3%.

  • INC vote shareINC went from 49.4% to 59.7% of the vote here (+10.3%).

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
43,522
Margin
10,145
23.31%

Candidates

4 contested · winner INC
  1. 1PRAFULLA KANTI GHOSHIndian National Congress · INC26,00059.7%
  2. 2KRISHNA GOPAL BASUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM15,85536.4%
  3. 3SINGHA MONIPRASADBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,1622.7%
  4. 4SHRI SUSHIL KUMAR PAULNCO · NCO5051.2%

Since 1969

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
INCflipped
INC–CPM swing
+23.7%
INC share
49.4% → 59.7%
CPM share
49.8% → 36.4%
Turnout
— → —
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