Constituency
19. Rajganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-RAJGANJ
INC 59.3%won by 28.1%CPM 31.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.3% to 28.1%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.5% of the vote between them, up from 66.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
36,877
Margin
10,350
28.07%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1MRIGENDRA NARAYAN ROYIndian National Congress · INC21,85359.3%
- 2DHIRENDRA NATH ROYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM11,50331.2%
- 3HERAMBA DEB RAIKATSOP · SOP3,5219.5%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- +23.7%
- INC share
- 35.3% → 59.3%
- CPM share
- 30.9% → 31.2%
- Turnout
- — → —