Constituency
25. Chopra
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-CHOPRA
INC 63.1%won by 26.9%CPM 36.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 7.5% to 26.9%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.2% of the vote between them, up from 72.2% — 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
37,448
Margin
10,072
26.90%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1CHOWDHARY ABDUL KARIMIndian National Congress · INC23,61263.1%
- 2BACHCHA MUNSHICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM13,54036.2%
- 3ISMAILSOP · SOP2960.8%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- +19.4%
- INC share
- 39.8% → 63.1%
- CPM share
- 32.3% → 36.2%
- Turnout
- — → —