Constituency
268. Ketugram
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-KETUGRAM
CPM 43.4%won by 2.2%INC 41.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.5% to 2.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 13.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.7% 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
42,392
Margin
926
2.18%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPMSince 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −11.3%
- CPM share
- 56.7% → 43.4%
- INC share
- 43.3% → 41.2%
- Turnout
- — → —