Constituency
38. Kharba
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-KHARBA
INC 47.7%won by 1.3%CPM 46.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 1.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 41.9% to 47.7% of the vote here (+5.9%).
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
53,429
Margin
669
1.25%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1MAHABUBUL HAQUEIndian National Congress · INC25,51247.7%
- 2MAZIMUL HAQUECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM24,84346.5%
- 3BIRENDRA KUMAR MAITRANCO · NCO3,0745.8%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +13.0%
- INC share
- 41.9% → 47.7%
- CPM share
- 53.7% → 46.5%
- Turnout
- — → —