Constituency
243. Sonamukhi
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-SONAMUKHI
CPM 38.8%won by 2.9%INC 36.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.8% to 2.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 19.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.8% between them, down from 96.4% — 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
38,868
Margin
1,112
2.86%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1SUKHENDU KHANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM15,09138.8%
- 2KANAI SAHAIndian National Congress · INC13,97936.0%
- 3KIRITY BAGDICommunist Party of India · CPI6,61617.0%
- 4CHAND ROY MAJHIBAC · BAC3,1828.2%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −16.9%
- CPM share
- 58.1% → 38.8%
- INC share
- 38.3% → 36.0%
- Turnout
- — → —