Constituency
3. Cooch Behar West
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-COOCH-BEHAR-WEST
INC 68.6%won by 37.1%FBL 31.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 17.6% to 37.1%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) to FBL (FBL).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 72.7% — 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
44,924
Margin
16,684
37.14%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1RAJANI DASIndian National Congress · INC30,80468.6%
- 2AJIT KUMAR BASUNIAFBL · FBL14,12031.4%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–FBL swing
- +5.2%
- INC share
- 45.2% → 68.6%
- FBL share
- 13.2% → 31.4%
- Turnout
- — → —