Constituency
238. Bankura
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-BANKURA
INC 36.8%won by 11.6%CPM 25.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 11.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 27.7% to 36.8% of the vote here (+9.1%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 25.2% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 62.0% between them, down from 86.0% — 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
47,360
Margin
5,496
11.60%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1KASHI NATH MISRAIndian National Congress · INC17,42336.8%
- 2SUMITRA CHATTERJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM11,92725.2%
- 3DEBABRATA CHATTERJEECommunist Party of India · CPI11,11623.5%
- 4GIRIJA PRASANNA DUBEYBAC · BAC3,1296.6%
- 5ARUP MUKHOPADHYAYHMS · HMS1,4943.2%
- 6CHATTAPADHYAY GUNAMOYBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,2282.6%
- 7ROY ANIYA KANTINCO · NCO1,0432.2%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- −16.1%
- INC share
- 27.7% → 36.8%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 25.2%
- Turnout
- — → —