Constituency
270. Bolpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-BOLPUR
CPM 39.8%won by 6.4%BAC 33.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 6.4%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 39.8% of the vote here (+39.8%).
- New challengerBAC (BAC) finished second with 33.4% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.2% between them, down from 97.6% — 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
32,849
Margin
2,118
6.45%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1PRASANTA MUKHERJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM13,08839.8%
- 2RANJIT KUMAR CHOUDHURYBAC · BAC10,97033.4%
- 3CHITTA ROYCommunist Party of India · CPI7,01021.3%
- 4JORDISH MOLLAPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,2663.9%
- 5AJOY KUMAR NANDANIndependent · IND5151.6%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–BAC swing
- +6.4%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 39.8%
- BAC share
- 0.0% → 33.4%
- Turnout
- — → —