Constituency
185. Chandrakona
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-CHANDRAKONA
CPM 42.5%won by 13.1%INC 29.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.8% to 13.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 14.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.0% 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
48,127
Margin
6,283
13.06%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1CHOUDHURY SOROSHICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM20,47442.5%
- 2SUHAS DUTTA ROYIndian National Congress · INC14,19129.5%
- 3SATYA GHOSALCommunist Party of India · CPI11,29323.5%
- 4MUKHOPADHYAY SATYA GOPALNCO · NCO2,1694.5%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −0.8%
- CPM share
- 56.9% → 42.5%
- INC share
- 43.1% → 29.5%
- Turnout
- — → —