Constituency
211. Kharagpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-KHARAGPUR
INC 60.2%won by 37.1%CPI 23.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.8% to 37.1%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.3% between them, down from 98.9% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- 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
41,319
Margin
15,312
37.06%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INCSince 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- +26.2%
- INC share
- 54.8% → 60.2%
- CPI share
- 44.0% → 23.1%
- Turnout
- — → —