Constituency
217. Gopiballavpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-GOPIBALLAVPUR
INC 31.8%won by 3.3%CPM 28.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 3.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 40.1% to 31.8% of the vote here (−8.2%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 28.5% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 60.4% between them, down from 92.6% — 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
52,176
Margin
1,732
3.32%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1HARISH CHANDRA MAHAPATRAIndian National Congress · INC16,61731.8%
- 2MONORANJAN MAHAPATRACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM14,88528.5%
- 3SURENDRA NATH MAHATANCO · NCO7,19713.8%
- 4RAJARAM SINGHASamyukta Socialist Party · SSP7,02413.5%
- 5SANKAR GHOSHJan Kalyan Party · JKP3,6126.9%
- 6UMESH CHANDRA DEYIndependent · IND1,6743.2%
- 7DHANANJOY KARIndependent · IND1,1672.2%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- −36.8%
- INC share
- 40.1% → 31.8%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 28.5%
- Turnout
- — → —