Constituency
4. Sitai
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-SITAI
INC 65.1%won by 30.1%FBL 34.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 18.6% to 30.1%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 70.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
43,937
Margin
13,247
30.15%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1M O FAZLE HAQUEIndian National Congress · INC28,59265.1%
- 2DIPAK SEN GUPTAFBL · FBL15,34534.9%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–FBL swing
- +11.5%
- INC share
- 44.7% → 65.1%
- FBL share
- 26.1% → 34.9%
- Turnout
- — → —