Constituency
218. Jhargram
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-JHARGRAM
INC 38.8%won by 7.2%CPM 31.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: BAC (BAC) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 7.2%.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 31.6% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.5% between them, down from 87.6% — 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
53,066
Margin
3,820
7.20%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1BIRENDRA REJOYMALLADEVIndian National Congress · INC20,61538.8%
- 2DANARESWAR SENCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM16,79531.6%
- 3MONORANJAN MAHATAJan Kalyan Party · JKP6,52512.3%
- 4SUKUMAR GHOSHCommunist Party of India · CPI4,1047.7%
- 5PANCHKARI DEYBAC · BAC2,0563.9%
- 6NARENDRA NATH MAHATANCO · NCO1,8583.5%
- 7BHOLA ROYRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP1,1132.1%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- BAC
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- −33.6%
- INC share
- 40.8% → 38.8%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 31.6%
- Turnout
- — → —