Constituency
16. Mainaguri
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-MAINAGURI
INC 56.5%won by 32.7%RSP 23.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 18.3% to 32.7%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Rashtriya Sarvajan Party (RSP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 80.3% of the vote between them, up from 51.6% — 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
34,896
Margin
11,398
32.66%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1BIJOY KRISHNA MOHANTAIndian National Congress · INC19,71656.5%
- 2JATINDRA NATH BASUNIARashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP8,31823.8%
- 3PANCHANAN MALLICKIndependent · IND6,86219.7%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–RSP swing
- +11.8%
- INC share
- 35.0% → 56.5%
- RSP share
- 14.1% → 23.8%
- Turnout
- — → —