Constituency
140. Dhakuria
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-DHAKURIA
CPI 54.4%won by 16.9%CPM 37.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 23.6% to 16.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 37.5% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 92.0% 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
47,590
Margin
8,058
16.93%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1SOMNATH LAHIRICommunist Party of India · CPI25,91254.4%
- 2HARIDAS MALAKERCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM17,85437.5%
- 3BASUDER CHATTERJEENCO · NCO3,8248.0%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–CPM swing
- −44.9%
- CPI share
- 61.8% → 54.4%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 37.5%
- Turnout
- — → —