Constituency
259. Raina
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-RAINA
CPM 60.3%won by 23.7%INC 36.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 14.8% to 23.7%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.8% of the vote between them, up from 89.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
52,347
Margin
12,407
23.70%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPM- 1GOKULANANDA ROYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM31,54960.3%
- 2SUKUMAR CHATTOPADHYAYIndian National Congress · INC19,14236.6%
- 3RANA RANI TANNCO · NCO1,6563.2%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +8.9%
- CPM share
- 52.2% → 60.3%
- INC share
- 37.4% → 36.6%
- Turnout
- — → —