Constituency
269. Nanur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-NANUR
CPM 50.2%won by 16.5%BAC 33.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.4% to 16.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerBAC (BAC) finished second with 33.7% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.9% between them, down from 95.0% — 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
36,856
Margin
6,066
16.46%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1BANAMALI DASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM18,48650.2%
- 2ILA DASBAC · BAC12,42033.7%
- 3SAKTI PADA BAGDICommunist Party of India · CPI5,15014.0%
- 4SRISTIDHAR JOSHNCO · NCO8002.2%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–BAC swing
- −41.3%
- CPM share
- 57.7% → 50.2%
- BAC share
- 0.0% → 33.7%
- Turnout
- — → —