Constituency
68. Chapra
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-CHAPRA
INC 60.4%won by 24.8%CPM 35.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 24.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 16.8% to 60.4% of the vote here (+43.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.0% of the vote between them, up from 59.9% — 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
45,577
Margin
11,286
24.76%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1GHIASUDDIN AHMADIndian National Congress · INC27,51460.4%
- 2SAHABUDDIN MONDALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM16,22835.6%
- 3KABIR HUMAYUN MONDALMUL · MUL1,8354.0%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +49.0%
- INC share
- 16.8% → 60.4%
- CPM share
- 41.1% → 35.6%
- Turnout
- — → —