Constituency
42. Englishbazar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-ENGLISHBAZAR
CPI 54.9%won by 23.7%CPM 31.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.9% to 23.7%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.2% of the vote between them, up from 58.3% — 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
45,716
Margin
10,835
23.70%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1BIMAL DASCommunist Party of India · CPI25,11654.9%
- 2SAILENDRA SARKARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM14,28131.2%
- 3HARI PRASANNA MISRABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS6,31913.8%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–CPM swing
- +14.9%
- CPI share
- 31.6% → 54.9%
- CPM share
- 22.7% → 31.2%
- Turnout
- — → —