Constituency
54. Jalangi
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-JALANGI
INC 42.5%won by 2.3%CPM 40.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 2.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 16.6% to 42.5% of the vote here (+25.9%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 82.6% of the vote between them, up from 65.7% — 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
34,069
Margin
787
2.31%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1ABDUL BARI BISWASIndian National Congress · INC14,46342.5%
- 2ATAHAR RAHAMAN AGECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM13,67640.1%
- 3PRAFULLA KUMAR SARKARBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS2,6617.8%
- 4NRIPENDRA NATH BISWASNCO · NCO1,7765.2%
- 5AHAMMAD FAHIMUDDINMUL · MUL1,4934.4%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +3.4%
- INC share
- 16.6% → 42.5%
- CPM share
- 17.7% → 40.1%
- Turnout
- — → —