Constituency
53. Murshidabad
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-MURSHIDABAD
INC 50.7%won by 11.4%CPM 39.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.2% to 11.4%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.1% of the vote between them, up from 56.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- 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
43,129
Margin
4,896
11.35%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INCSince 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- +9.2%
- INC share
- 29.3% → 50.7%
- CPM share
- 27.1% → 39.4%
- Turnout
- — → —