Constituency
12. Falakata
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-FALAKATA
INC 64.2%won by 28.3%SOP 35.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.9% to 28.3%.
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 35.8% — it did not contest here in 1971.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 61.0% — 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
39,275
Margin
11,131
28.34%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1JAGADANANDA ROYIndian National Congress · INC25,20364.2%
- 2PUSHPAJIT BARMANSOP · SOP14,07235.8%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SOP swing
- −4.6%
- INC share
- 33.0% → 64.2%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 35.8%
- Turnout
- — → —