Constituency
233. Ranibandh
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-RANIBANDH
CPM 50.4%won by 28.7%BAC 21.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.8% to 28.7%.
- New challengerBAC (BAC) finished second with 21.7% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.0% between them, down from 95.7% — 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
41,300
Margin
11,846
28.68%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1SUCHABO SARENCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM20,79750.4%
- 2BAIDYA NATH HANSDABAC · BAC8,95121.7%
- 3HEMBRAM NABIN CHANDRAIndian National Congress · INC5,17112.5%
- 4SAREN RAICHARANNCO · NCO2,5296.1%
- 5SURPRAKASH MURMUJan Kalyan Party · JKP2,1965.3%
- 6NANDINI MURMUCommunist Party of India · CPI1,6564.0%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–BAC swing
- −22.6%
- CPM share
- 51.3% → 50.4%
- BAC share
- 0.0% → 21.7%
- Turnout
- — → —