Constituency
264. Manteswar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-MANTESWAR
CPM 57.1%won by 23.2%INC 33.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 23.0% to 23.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 91.0% between them, down from 97.3% — 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
52,085
Margin
12,078
23.19%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1KASHI NATH HAZBA CHOWDHURYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM29,75057.1%
- 2SAITENDRA NATH HATIIndian National Congress · INC17,67233.9%
- 3CHANDRA SEKHAR SAMANTABAC · BAC1,9603.8%
- 4MONOBENDRA BRAMACHARIFBL · FBL1,8533.6%
- 5RAJ KRISHNA DAWNNCO · NCO8501.6%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +0.2%
- CPM share
- 60.1% → 57.1%
- INC share
- 37.1% → 33.9%
- Turnout
- — → —