Constituency
79. Bongaon
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-BONGAON
CPI 64.7%won by 29.4%CPM 35.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.5% to 29.4%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 83.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
43,755
Margin
12,865
29.40%
Candidates
2 contested · winner CPISince 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–CPM swing
- +22.9%
- CPI share
- 44.9% → 64.7%
- CPM share
- 38.4% → 35.3%
- Turnout
- — → —