Constituency
59. Beldanga
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-BELDANGA
RSP 40.4%won by 3.4%INC 37.1%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.4% to 3.4%.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 37.1% — it did not contest here in 1971.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 77.5% of the vote between them, up from 68.4% — 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
44,734
Margin
1,503
3.36%
Candidates
4 contested · winner RSP- 1TIMIR BARAN BHADURIRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP18,08440.4%
- 2ABDUL LATIFIndian National Congress · INC16,58137.1%
- 3KHAN SIDHIQUE HOSAINMUL · MUL9,02820.2%
- 4TAPAN KUMAR CHAKRABARTYBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,0412.3%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- RSP
- RSP–INC swing
- −39.1%
- RSP share
- 42.4% → 40.4%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 37.1%
- Turnout
- — → —