Constituency
81. Ashokenagar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-ASHOKENAGAR
IND 42.6%won by 7.4%CPM 35.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 7.4%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 0.6% to 42.6% of the vote here (+42.0%).
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
56,030
Margin
4,132
7.37%
Candidates
4 contested · winner IND- 1KESHAB CHANDRA BATTACHARJEEIndependent · IND23,86942.6%
- 2NANI KARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM19,73735.2%
- 3SADHAN KUMAR SENCommunist Party of India · CPI11,93621.3%
- 4BARENDRA NATH TALAPATRANCO · NCO4880.9%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–CPM swing
- +49.9%
- IND share
- 0.6% → 42.6%
- CPM share
- 43.1% → 35.2%
- Turnout
- — → —