Constituency
154. Howrah South
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-HOWRAH-SOUTH
INC 44.4%won by 5.4%CPM 39.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 5.4%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.5% between them, down from 99.3% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
42,575
Margin
2,301
5.40%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INCSince 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +18.4%
- INC share
- 43.1% → 44.4%
- CPM share
- 56.2% → 39.0%
- Turnout
- — → —