Constituency
224. Jhalda
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-JHALDA
INC 46.6%won by 15.6%FBL 31.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.1% to 15.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.6% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
39,824
Margin
6,218
15.61%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1KINKAR MAHATOIndian National Congress · INC18,56846.6%
- 2CHITTA RANJAN MAHATOFBL · FBL12,35031.0%
- 3JANARDAN KUMARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM6,70416.8%
- 4GORACHAND MAHATONCO · NCO1,7354.4%
- 5SANTOSH KUMAR BHATTACHARJEELSS · LSS4671.2%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–FBL swing
- +12.5%
- INC share
- 51.5% → 46.6%
- FBL share
- 48.5% → 31.0%
- Turnout
- — → —