Constituency
254. Bhatar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-BHATAR
CPM 46.8%won by 15.3%BAC 31.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 15.3%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 46.8% of the vote here (+46.8%).
- New challengerBAC (BAC) finished second with 31.6% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.4% between them, down from 96.9% — 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
39,534
Margin
6,039
15.28%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1ANATH BANDHU GHOSECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM18,51646.8%
- 2SUSHIL KUMAR GHOSHBAC · BAC12,47731.6%
- 3ASWINI ROYCommunist Party of India · CPI5,39113.6%
- 4ABDUS SATTARRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP2,5956.6%
- 5DAS SUNIL KUMARNCO · NCO5551.4%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–BAC swing
- +15.3%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 46.8%
- BAC share
- 0.0% → 31.6%
- Turnout
- — → —