Constituency
149. Burtola
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-BURTOLA
INC 53.5%won by 26.4%CPM 27.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Rashtriya Sarvajan Party (RSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 26.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 44.7% to 53.5% of the vote here (+8.8%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 27.1% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.7% 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
36,966
Margin
9,758
26.40%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1AJIT KUMAR PANJAIndian National Congress · INC19,79353.5%
- 2LAKESHMI KANTA DEYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM10,03527.1%
- 3NIKHIL DASRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP3,6339.8%
- 4APARESH BHATTACHERJEENCO · NCO2,0595.6%
- 5ASHOKE DAS GUPTAPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,1783.2%
- 6BEJOY KUMAR SEN SHARMARSM · RSM2680.7%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- −18.3%
- INC share
- 44.7% → 53.5%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 27.1%
- Turnout
- — → —