Constituency
196. Bhagabanpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-BHAGABANPUR
CPM 25.3%won by 1.4%NCO 23.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 1.4%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 25.3% of the vote here (+25.3%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 23.9% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 49.1% 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
50,317
Margin
707
1.41%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1PRADHAN PRASANTA KUMARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM12,71325.3%
- 2HARIPADA JANANCO · NCO12,00623.9%
- 3AMALES JANABAC · BAC11,79123.4%
- 4JAGADISH CHANDRA PALIndian National Congress · INC7,71215.3%
- 5SEKH KABIRUDDINIndependent · IND3,1646.3%
- 6BIPIN BEHARI BARMANIndependent · IND2,0944.2%
- 7ADHIKARY RADHARAMANIndependent · IND8371.7%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–NCO swing
- +1.4%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 25.3%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 23.9%
- Turnout
- — → —