Constituency
210. Midnapur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-MIDNAPUR
CPI 46.4%won by 4.1%INC 42.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 10.6% to 4.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.7% between them, down from 98.0% — 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
50,694
Margin
2,076
4.10%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPI- 1BISWNATH MUKHERJEECommunist Party of India · CPI23,52946.4%
- 2SUDHIR DAS SARMAIndian National Congress · INC21,45342.3%
- 3BINOY JIBAN GHOSHIndependent · IND3,3806.7%
- 4ARJUN HANSDAJan Kalyan Party · JKP7901.6%
- 5SUDHANSU KUMAR MITRABAC · BAC7881.6%
- 6MADAN MOHAN KHANNCO · NCO7541.5%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- −6.5%
- CPI share
- 54.3% → 46.4%
- INC share
- 43.7% → 42.3%
- Turnout
- — → —