Constituency
145. Sealdah
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-SEALDAH
INC 54.0%won by 25.6%CPM 28.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Rashtriya Sarvajan Party (RSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 25.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 44.7% to 54.0% of the vote here (+9.3%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 28.4% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.4% 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
38,587
Margin
9,881
25.61%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INCSince 1969
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- −19.1%
- INC share
- 44.7% → 54.0%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 28.4%
- Turnout
- — → —