Constituency
35. Tapan
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-TAPAN
INC 58.0%won by 16.7%RSP 41.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.8% to 16.7%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.2% of the vote between them, up from 78.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
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Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
48,585
Margin
8,131
16.74%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1PATRASH HEMBREMIndian National Congress · INC28,16658.0%
- 2NATHANIAL MURMURashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP20,03541.2%
- 3KISKU GOMAIJan Kalyan Party · JKP3840.8%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–RSP swing
- +9.9%
- INC share
- 42.5% → 58.0%
- RSP share
- 35.7% → 41.2%
- Turnout
- — → —