Constituency
80. Gaighata
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-GAIGHATA
INC 66.3%won by 32.7%CPM 33.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.2% to 32.7%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 70.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress 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
45,548
Margin
14,886
32.68%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INCSince 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- +27.5%
- INC share
- 37.6% → 66.3%
- CPM share
- 32.4% → 33.7%
- Turnout
- — → —