Constituency
205. Debra
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-DEBRA
INC 36.6%won by 3.3%CPM 33.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.4% to 3.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 13.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 33.4% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.0% 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
47,000
Margin
1,537
3.27%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1RABINDRA NATH BERAIndian National Congress · INC17,21936.6%
- 2SIBARAM BASUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM15,68233.4%
- 3CHAPAL BHATTACHARYYACommunist Party of India · CPI5,47411.6%
- 4HAZRA BECHURAMBAC · BAC2,9576.3%
- 5DR. BIJOY KRISHNA SAMANTANCO · NCO2,2844.9%
- 6SK. AFAJUDDINIndependent · IND1,5263.2%
- 7BIJOY DASIndependent · IND9472.0%
- 8BABULAL HANSDAJan Kalyan Party · JKP9111.9%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- −47.0%
- INC share
- 50.2% → 36.6%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 33.4%
- Turnout
- — → —