Constituency
76. Chakdah
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-CHAKDAH
INC 57.4%won by 14.8%CPM 42.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 14.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 0.0% to 57.4% of the vote here (+57.4%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 79.7% — 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
57,720
Margin
8,568
14.84%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INCSince 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +65.7%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 57.4%
- CPM share
- 50.9% → 42.6%
- Turnout
- — → —