Constituency
167. Jangipara
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-JANGIPARA
CPM 49.0%won by 18.9%INC 30.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 17.1% to 18.9%.
- 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 79.0% 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
46,314
Margin
8,751
18.89%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1MANINDRA NATH JANACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM22,67749.0%
- 2GANESH HATUIIndian National Congress · INC13,92630.1%
- 3SANATAN BHARBAC · BAC5,43311.7%
- 4SUSHIL CHATTOPADHYAYACommunist Party of India · CPI4,2789.2%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +1.8%
- CPM share
- 57.6% → 49.0%
- INC share
- 40.6% → 30.1%
- Turnout
- — → —