Constituency
136. Alipore
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-ALIPORE
INC 46.9%won by 11.7%CPI 35.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 11.7%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.2% between them, down from 99.6% — the field split more ways.
- 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
40,515
Margin
4,725
11.66%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1KANAI LAL SARKARIndian National Congress · INC19,02146.9%
- 2MONI SANYALCommunist Party of India · CPI14,29635.3%
- 3NEPAL BHATTCHARYACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM6,01214.8%
- 4NARAYAN PRASAD GHOSHNCO · NCO1,0452.6%
- 5SHYAM NARAIN MISRAIndependent · IND1410.3%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- +13.0%
- INC share
- 49.1% → 46.9%
- CPI share
- 50.5% → 35.3%
- Turnout
- — → —