Constituency
17. Mal
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-MAL
INC 61.8%won by 23.6%CPM 38.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.1% to 23.6%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 56.2% — 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
41,969
Margin
9,909
23.61%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INCSince 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- +14.5%
- INC share
- 32.7% → 61.8%
- CPM share
- 23.5% → 38.2%
- Turnout
- — → —