Constituency
199. Contai South
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-CONTAI-SOUTH
PSP 38.7%won by 9.5%NCO 29.1%
What changed here
DerivedPraja Socialist Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 14.1% to 9.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 18.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 29.1% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.8% 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
46,991
Margin
4,480
9.53%
Candidates
6 contested · winner PSP- 1SUDHIR CHANDRA DASPraja Socialist Party · PSP18,16538.7%
- 2SATYABRATA MAITYNCO · NCO13,68529.1%
- 3KAR RAMSANKARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,94010.5%
- 4ADHIKARY SISIR KUMARIndian National Congress · INC4,80610.2%
- 5TABEZ UADIN NAHAMMADIndependent · IND3,8038.1%
- 6MAITY PRANRANJANIndependent · IND1,5923.4%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- PSP
- PSP–NCO swing
- −47.5%
- PSP share
- 57.1% → 38.7%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 29.1%
- Turnout
- — → —