Constituency
1. Mekliganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-MEKLIGANJ
INC 57.7%won by 17.0%FBL 40.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: FBL (FBL) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 17.0%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 35.3% to 57.7% of the vote here (+22.4%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.5% of the vote between them, up from 79.2% — 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
44,724
Margin
7,583
16.96%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1MAUHUSUDAN ROYIndian National Congress · INC25,81657.7%
- 2AMARENDRANATH ROY PRODHANFBL · FBL18,23340.8%
- 3SUDHANGSHU KUMAR SARKARIndependent · IND6751.5%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–FBL swing
- +25.6%
- INC share
- 35.3% → 57.7%
- FBL share
- 43.9% → 40.8%
- Turnout
- — → —