Constituency
175. Chinsurah
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-CHINSURAH
INC 44.1%won by 0.4%CPM 43.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: FBL (FBL) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 0.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 33.7% to 44.1% of the vote here (+10.4%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 43.6% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.7% between them, down from 98.4% — 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
53,335
Margin
237
0.44%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1BHUPATI MAJUMDARIndian National Congress · INC23,51144.1%
- 2AMIYA KUMAR NANDYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM23,27443.6%
- 3SAMBHU CHARAN GHOSEFBL · FBL6,05011.3%
- 4BISWARANJAN SENGUPTAIndependent · IND5000.9%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- −33.2%
- INC share
- 33.7% → 44.1%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 43.6%
- Turnout
- — → —