Constituency
204. Pingla
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-PINGLA
INC 45.9%won by 21.5%CPI 24.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 21.5%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.4% between them, down from 99.2% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
54,201
Margin
11,638
21.47%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1BIJOY DASIndian National Congress · INC24,89245.9%
- 2KAMAKHYANANDAN DAS MAHAPATRCommunist Party of India · CPI13,25424.5%
- 3GOURANGA SAMANTAIndependent · IND11,80421.8%
- 4SUDHIR CHAKRABORTYBAC · BAC1,9873.7%
- 5HARI PADAJANANCO · NCO1,2262.3%
- 6PURNA TUDUJan Kalyan Party · JKP1,0381.9%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- +30.5%
- INC share
- 45.1% → 45.9%
- CPI share
- 54.1% → 24.5%
- Turnout
- — → —