Constituency
146. Vidyasagar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-VIDYASAGAR
INC 50.2%won by 14.6%CPM 35.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 14.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 39.0% to 50.2% of the vote here (+11.2%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.7% between them, down from 98.9% — 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
34,966
Margin
5,121
14.65%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1SHAM SUFZZOHAIndian National Congress · INC17,53950.2%
- 2SAMAR KUMAR BADRACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM12,41835.5%
- 3CHANDI KUKHERJEECommunist Party of India · CPI3,3869.7%
- 4SUSHOBHAN BANERJEENCO · NCO1,0262.9%
- 5CHITTA DAS GUPTABAC · BAC5971.7%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +35.6%
- INC share
- 39.0% → 50.2%
- CPM share
- 59.9% → 35.5%
- Turnout
- — → —