Constituency
36. Habibpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-HABIBPUR
CPI 60.4%won by 30.9%CPM 29.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 30.9%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 13.9% to 60.4% of the vote here (+46.5%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 29.5% — it did not contest here in 1971.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.9% of the vote between them, up from 65.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
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Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
44,748
Margin
13,820
30.88%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1RABINDRA NATH MURMUCommunist Party of India · CPI27,02760.4%
- 2SARKAR MURMUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM13,20729.5%
- 3BOILA MURMUIndependent · IND4,51410.1%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–CPM swing
- +17.0%
- CPI share
- 13.9% → 60.4%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 29.5%
- Turnout
- — → —