Constituency
18. Jalpaiguri
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-JALPAIGURI
INC 64.2%won by 28.5%CPM 35.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 21.6% to 28.5%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 78.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
53,295
Margin
15,167
28.46%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1ANUPAM SENIndian National Congress · INC34,23164.2%
- 2SUBODH SENCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM19,06435.8%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- +6.9%
- INC share
- 49.9% → 64.2%
- CPM share
- 28.3% → 35.8%
- Turnout
- — → —