Constituency
189. Panskura East
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-PANSKURA-EAST
CPI 54.4%won by 38.6%BAC 15.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 27.6% to 38.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerBAC (BAC) finished second with 15.9% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.3% 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
49,610
Margin
19,126
38.55%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPI- 1GEETA MUKHOPADHYAYACommunist Party of India · CPI27,01254.4%
- 2BIRBHADRA GOURIBAC · BAC7,88615.9%
- 3GAJENDRA NATH SHFECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM6,90113.9%
- 4JAGADISH PRASAD GOURINCO · NCO6,17912.5%
- 5SWADES RANJAN MAJIRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP1,6323.3%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–BAC swing
- −25.2%
- CPI share
- 63.8% → 54.4%
- BAC share
- 0.0% → 15.9%
- Turnout
- — → —