Constituency
228. Raghunathpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-RAGHUNATHPUR
SUC 32.8%won by 4.4%INC 28.4%
What changed here
DerivedSUC held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 55.2% to 4.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 41.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.2% between them, down from 92.9% — 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
29,199
Margin
1,295
4.44%
Candidates
6 contested · winner SUC- 1HARI PADA BOURISUC · SUC9,57732.8%
- 2DURGA DAS BOURIIndian National Congress · INC8,28228.4%
- 3MADAN BOURICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM7,16224.5%
- 4NEPAL BOURINCO · NCO1,9326.6%
- 5KALA BARAN BOURIBAC · BAC1,7285.9%
- 6MADHUSUDAN SAHISLSS · LSS5181.8%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- SUC
- Winner now
- SUC
- SUC–INC swing
- −50.8%
- SUC share
- 74.1% → 32.8%
- INC share
- 18.8% → 28.4%
- Turnout
- — → —