Constituency
177. Balagarh
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-BALAGARH
CPM 47.5%won by 8.3%INC 39.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.8% to 8.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.8% 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
47,846
Margin
3,962
8.28%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPMSince 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −12.6%
- CPM share
- 60.4% → 47.5%
- INC share
- 39.6% → 39.2%
- Turnout
- — → —