Constituency
180. Tarakeswar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-TARAKESWAR
MFB 55.7%won by 29.5%INC 26.2%
What changed here
DerivedMFB held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.1% to 29.5%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.9% between them, down from 99.6% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatMFB won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
50,776
Margin
14,981
29.50%
Candidates
5 contested · winner MFB- 1RAM CHATERJEEMFB · MFB28,28955.7%
- 2RAM SINHA PALIndian National Congress · INC13,30826.2%
- 3MITYANADA ADIKARYNCO · NCO5,40110.6%
- 4AJIT BASU MALLICKSOC · SOC3,1226.1%
- 5MANSHA RAM SAMANTAFBL · FBL6561.3%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- MFB
- Winner now
- MFB
- MFB–INC swing
- +25.4%
- MFB share
- 51.8% → 55.7%
- INC share
- 47.7% → 26.2%
- Turnout
- — → —