Constituency
132. Bara Bazar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-BARA-BAZAR
INC 55.6%won by 27.3%BJS 28.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 30.4% to 27.3%.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
41,427
Margin
11,330
27.35%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1RAMKRISHNA SARAOGIIndian National Congress · INC23,04755.6%
- 2DURGA PRASAD NATHANYBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS11,71728.3%
- 3AJODHYA SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM6,23115.0%
- 4BASANTA SINGHRSM · RSM1880.5%
- 5SINGH JAGDISHSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP1300.3%
- 6LALIT KUMAR SARMAIndependent · IND1140.3%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- −3.0%
- INC share
- 55.5% → 55.6%
- BJS share
- 25.1% → 28.3%
- Turnout
- — → —