Constituency
37. Gajol
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-GAJOL
INC 60.1%won by 26.5%CPM 33.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 26.5%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 0.0% to 60.1% of the vote here (+60.1%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.6% of the vote between them, up from 78.9% — a tighter two-way 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
43,419
Margin
11,514
26.52%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1BENJAMIN HEMBROMIndian National Congress · INC26,07560.1%
- 2SUPHAL MURMUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM14,56133.5%
- 3SAMU TUDUBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS2,7836.4%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +71.1%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 60.1%
- CPM share
- 44.6% → 33.5%
- Turnout
- — → —