Constituency
82. Barasat
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-BARASAT
INC 58.2%won by 17.9%FBL 40.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: FBL (FBL) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 17.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 0.0% to 58.2% of the vote here (+58.2%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.5% of the vote between them, up from 66.2% — 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
56,665
Margin
10,153
17.92%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1KANTI RANGAN CHATTERJEEIndian National Congress · INC32,98858.2%
- 2SARAL DEBFBL · FBL22,83540.3%
- 3SUNIL SEKHAR MANDALIndependent · IND8421.5%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–FBL swing
- +52.3%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 58.2%
- FBL share
- 34.4% → 40.3%
- Turnout
- — → —