Constituency
23. Siliguri
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-SILIGURI
INC 65.4%won by 35.5%CPM 29.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 20.7% to 35.5%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.3% of the vote between them, up from 80.5% — 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
40,877
Margin
14,502
35.48%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1ARUN KUMAR MOITRAIndian National Congress · INC26,72865.4%
- 2BIREN BOSECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM12,22629.9%
- 3BENOY ROYIndependent · IND1,3053.2%
- 4RANENDRA NATH BARMAIndependent · IND6181.5%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- +14.8%
- INC share
- 50.6% → 65.4%
- CPM share
- 29.9% → 29.9%
- Turnout
- — → —