Constituency
171. Champdani
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-CHAMPDANI
CPM 47.9%won by 21.2%INC 26.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 17.4% to 21.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.5% 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
48,463
Margin
10,294
21.24%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPMSince 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +3.9%
- CPM share
- 58.7% → 47.9%
- INC share
- 41.3% → 26.7%
- Turnout
- — → —