Constituency
13. Madarihat
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-MADARIHAT
RSP 43.7%won by 8.1%INC 35.6%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 8.5% to 8.1%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 79.3% of the vote between them, up from 57.7% — 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
38,413
Margin
3,118
8.12%
Candidates
3 contested · winner RSP- 1A.H. BESTER WITCHRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP16,78543.7%
- 2ASWAGHOSH KULLUIndian National Congress · INC13,66735.6%
- 3KHUDIRAM PAHANIndependent · IND7,96120.7%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- RSP
- RSP–INC swing
- −4.6%
- RSP share
- 33.1% → 43.7%
- INC share
- 20.4% → 35.6%
- Turnout
- — → —