Constituency
6. Cooch Behar North
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-COOCH-BEHAR-NORTH
INC 58.8%won by 18.8%FBL 40.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 14.9% to 18.8%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) to FBL (FBL).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.9% of the vote between them, up from 84.2% — 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
49,529
Margin
9,296
18.77%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1SUNIL KARIndian National Congress · INC29,14258.8%
- 2APARAJITA GOPPIFBL · FBL19,84640.1%
- 3JAHARUDDIN MIANCO · NCO5411.1%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–FBL swing
- −18.2%
- INC share
- 49.6% → 58.8%
- FBL share
- 12.6% → 40.1%
- Turnout
- — → —