Constituency
46. Farakka
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-FARAKKA
CPM 44.1%won by 3.6%INC 40.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.9% to 3.6%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.7% of the vote between them, up from 75.3% — 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
47,133
Margin
1,675
3.55%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPM- 1JERAT ALICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM20,78744.1%
- 2MD WAZED ALIIndian National Congress · INC19,11240.5%
- 3SOHIDUL ALAMMUL · MUL7,23415.3%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −18.8%
- CPM share
- 38.6% → 44.1%
- INC share
- 16.2% → 40.5%
- Turnout
- — → —