Constituency
246. Barabani
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-BARABANI
CPM 48.6%won by 15.2%INC 33.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 22.5% to 15.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.1% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
41,545
Margin
6,334
15.25%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1BASUROY SUNILCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM20,21148.6%
- 2SUKUMAR BANDOPADHAYAIndian National Congress · INC13,87733.4%
- 3HARIDAS CHAKRAVARTYCommunist Party of India · CPI5,60813.5%
- 4KRISHNA PRASAD TRIVEDINCO · NCO8182.0%
- 5MAJI DAKSHINESWARRCI · RCI5311.3%
- 6BHABANITOSH MUKHOPADHAYAIndependent · IND5001.2%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −7.3%
- CPM share
- 61.3% → 48.6%
- INC share
- 38.7% → 33.4%
- Turnout
- — → —