Constituency
184. Goghat
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-GOGHAT
INC 30.9%won by 6.8%CPM 24.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: FBL (FBL) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 6.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 45.9% to 30.9% of the vote here (−15.0%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 24.1% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 55.0% 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
36,442
Margin
2,462
6.76%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1MADAN MOHAN MEDDAIndian National Congress · INC11,26130.9%
- 2RADHA NATH DASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM8,79924.1%
- 3AJIT KUMAR BISWASFBL · FBL8,72523.9%
- 4NANU RAM ROYNCO · NCO5,79115.9%
- 5KARTICK CHANDRA MONDALJan Kalyan Party · JKP1,8665.1%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- −39.1%
- INC share
- 45.9% → 30.9%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 24.1%
- Turnout
- — → —