Constituency
252. Faridpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-FARIDPUR
CPM 41.2%won by 19.5%INC 21.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: BAC (BAC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 19.5%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 41.2% of the vote here (+41.2%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 63.0% between them, down from 98.5% — 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
42,114
Margin
8,196
19.46%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1SANAT KUMAR BANERJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM17,35641.2%
- 2SRI DASGHATAKIndian National Congress · INC9,16021.8%
- 3DINA NATH ROYCommunist Party of India · CPI7,03616.7%
- 4LABANYA GOPAL CHATAKNCO · NCO5,50113.1%
- 5LABANYA NIROD CHATTOPADHYAYBAC · BAC1,4073.3%
- 6MUKHERJEE PROFULLA KUMARIndependent · IND1,3783.3%
- 7NIRODA PRASAD MUKHERJEEIndependent · IND2760.7%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- BAC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +66.3%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 41.2%
- INC share
- 46.8% → 21.8%
- Turnout
- — → —