Constituency
10. Kalchini
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-KALCHINI
INC 51.5%won by 13.6%RSP 37.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 7.0% to 13.6%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Praja Socialist Party (PSP) to Rashtriya Sarvajan Party (RSP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.3% of the vote between them, up from 70.5% — 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
30,003
Margin
4,094
13.65%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1DENIS LAKRAIndian National Congress · INC15,44751.5%
- 2JOHN ARTHER BAXLA URAONRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP11,35337.8%
- 3PHILIP MINJIndependent · IND3,20310.7%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–RSP swing
- −6.4%
- INC share
- 38.8% → 51.5%
- RSP share
- 18.7% → 37.8%
- Turnout
- — → —