Constituency
50. Lalgola
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-LALGOLA
INC 59.6%won by 27.8%CPM 31.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 16.0% to 27.8%.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 31.8% — it did not contest here in 1971.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.4% of the vote between them, up from 72.4% — 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
40,957
Margin
11,391
27.81%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1ABDUS SATTARIndian National Congress · INC24,40959.6%
- 2MD MAJIBUR RAHMANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM13,01831.8%
- 3JAGANNATH PANDEYIndependent · IND2,7156.6%
- 4ABDUR RAZZAQUEMUL · MUL8152.0%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- −16.4%
- INC share
- 44.2% → 59.6%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 31.8%
- Turnout
- — → —