Constituency
157. Jagatballavpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-JAGATBALLAVPUR
CPM 56.9%won by 32.4%INC 24.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 21.0% to 32.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.4% 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
48,389
Margin
15,686
32.42%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1TARAPADA DEYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM27,54156.9%
- 2PANNA LAL SITIndian National Congress · INC11,85524.5%
- 3CHITTA RANJAN KHANNANCO · NCO3,5487.3%
- 4MOLLA AZIZUL KARIMIndependent · IND3,1906.6%
- 5GOUR CHANDRA BAGBAC · BAC1,7223.6%
- 6ARUN KUMAR BAGSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP5331.1%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +11.4%
- CPM share
- 60.5% → 56.9%
- INC share
- 39.5% → 24.5%
- Turnout
- — → —