Constituency
58. Berhampore
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-BERHAMPORE
INC 68.2%won by 36.4%RSP 31.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 24.6% to 36.4%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) to Rashtriya Sarvajan Party (RSP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 64.0% — 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
46,109
Margin
16,787
36.41%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INCSince 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–RSP swing
- +6.5%
- INC share
- 44.3% → 68.2%
- RSP share
- 14.4% → 31.8%
- Turnout
- — → —