Constituency
227. Para
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-PARA
INC 38.6%won by 13.4%SUC 25.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: BAC (BAC) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 13.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 33.8% to 38.6% of the vote here (+4.8%).
- New challengerSUC (SUC) finished second with 25.2% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 63.8% between them, down from 78.0% — 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
27,690
Margin
3,702
13.37%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1SARAT DASIndian National Congress · INC10,68938.6%
- 2SAILEN BOURISUC · SUC6,98725.2%
- 3PRAHLAD BOURICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM5,19818.8%
- 4TINKORI BOURIBAC · BAC2,91210.5%
- 5MANSARAM BOURINCO · NCO1,5255.5%
- 6GURUPADA BOURILSS · LSS3791.4%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- BAC
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SUC swing
- −20.4%
- INC share
- 33.8% → 38.6%
- SUC share
- 0.0% → 25.2%
- Turnout
- — → —