Constituency
159. Sankrail
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-SANKRAIL
CPM 52.3%won by 24.4%INC 27.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 23.7% to 24.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.1% between them, down from 98.2% — 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
48,566
Margin
11,859
24.42%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPMSince 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +0.7%
- CPM share
- 61.0% → 52.3%
- INC share
- 37.2% → 27.9%
- Turnout
- — → —