Constituency
15. Nagrakata
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-NAGRAKATA
CPI 57.2%won by 18.6%CPM 38.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 18.6%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 0.0% to 57.2% of the vote here (+57.2%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.7% of the vote between them, up from 82.0% — 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
37,492
Margin
6,966
18.58%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1PREM ORAONCommunist Party of India · CPI21,42957.2%
- 2PUNAI ORAONCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM14,46338.6%
- 3MANGROO BHAGATIndependent · IND1,6004.3%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–CPM swing
- +76.4%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 57.2%
- CPM share
- 57.8% → 38.6%
- Turnout
- — → —