Constituency
182. Khanakul
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-KHANAKUL
CPM 41.8%won by 8.8%INC 33.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 10.2% to 8.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.7% between them, down from 97.2% — 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
45,856
Margin
4,036
8.80%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1MADAN SAHACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM19,15341.8%
- 2BASUDEV HAZRAIndian National Congress · INC15,11733.0%
- 3TINKORI BARBAC · BAC6,21613.6%
- 4KRISHNA PADA PANDITNCO · NCO3,6768.0%
- 5BISTU PADA ROYFBL · FBL1,6943.7%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −1.4%
- CPM share
- 53.7% → 41.8%
- INC share
- 43.5% → 33.0%
- Turnout
- — → —