Constituency
137. Kalighat
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-KALIGHAT
INC 55.2%won by 19.4%CPM 35.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 19.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 44.8% to 55.2% of the vote here (+10.4%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 91.0% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
44,567
Margin
8,637
19.38%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INCSince 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +29.7%
- INC share
- 44.8% → 55.2%
- CPM share
- 55.2% → 35.8%
- Turnout
- — → —