Constituency
29. Kaliaganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-KALIAGANJ
INC 68.4%won by 41.1%CPM 27.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 26.2% to 41.1%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.7% of the vote between them, up from 84.8% — 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
35,459
Margin
14,562
41.07%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1DEBENDRA NATH ROYIndian National Congress · INC24,24368.4%
- 2NANI GOPAL ROYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM9,68127.3%
- 3KAILAS SARKARNCO · NCO1,0503.0%
- 4BIJOY KUMAR SARKARSOP · SOP4851.4%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- +14.9%
- INC share
- 55.5% → 68.4%
- CPM share
- 29.3% → 27.3%
- Turnout
- — → —