Constituency
66. Kaliganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-KALIGANJ
INC 41.2%won by 7.2%CPM 34.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 7.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 13.0% to 41.2% of the vote here (+28.1%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 34.0% — it did not contest here in 1971.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 75.2% of the vote between them, up from 49.7% — 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
46,346
Margin
3,320
7.16%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1SHIB SANKAR BANDOPDCHAYAYIndian National Congress · INC19,07741.2%
- 2MIR FAKIR MOHAMMADCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM15,75734.0%
- 3RAME DRA NATH MUKHERJEEIndependent · IND8,53618.4%
- 4S.M. NARUL ISLAMMUL · MUL2,9766.4%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- −5.8%
- INC share
- 13.0% → 41.2%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 34.0%
- Turnout
- — → —