Constituency
197. Khajuri
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-KHAJURI
CPM 31.6%won by 4.4%NCO 27.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: BAC (BAC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 4.4%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 31.6% of the vote here (+31.6%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 27.2% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 58.8% between them, down from 92.3% — 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
44,000
Margin
1,954
4.44%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1JAGADISH CHANDRA DASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM13,90931.6%
- 2BADAL DASNCO · NCO11,95527.2%
- 3ABANTI KUMAR DASIndependent · IND8,64019.6%
- 4PARESH KANTI DASBAC · BAC5,44812.4%
- 5SUNIRMAL PAIKSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP4,0489.2%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- BAC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–NCO swing
- +4.4%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 31.6%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 27.2%
- Turnout
- — → —