Constituency
207. Garhbeta East
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-GARHBETA-EAST
CPI 33.5%won by 3.4%INC 30.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.6% to 3.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 23.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 63.5% between them, down from 94.3% — 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
50,651
Margin
1,744
3.44%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPI- 1KRISHNA PRASAD DULEYCommunist Party of India · CPI16,94933.5%
- 2MADAN MOHAN GURIAIndian National Congress · INC15,20530.0%
- 3BISUI ANGSUMALICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM13,45226.6%
- 4KALI KINKAR CHALAKNCO · NCO3,4816.9%
- 5SADHAN CHANDRA RUDDASBAC · BAC1,5643.1%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- −16.2%
- CPI share
- 57.0% → 33.5%
- INC share
- 37.3% → 30.0%
- Turnout
- — → —