Constituency
84. Deganga
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-DEGANGA
INC 41.3%won by 0.7%MUL 40.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 0.7%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 21.2% to 41.3% of the vote here (+20.1%).
- New challengerMUL (MUL) finished second with 40.6% — it did not contest here in 1971.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 81.9% of the vote between them, up from 67.6% — 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
46,722
Margin
345
0.74%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1M. SHAUKAT ALIIndian National Congress · INC19,31441.3%
- 2AKM HASSAN UZZAMANMUL · MUL18,96940.6%
- 3HARUN UR RASHIDIndependent · IND7,94017.0%
- 4C. CHATTOPADHYAYNCO · NCO4991.1%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–MUL swing
- −20.5%
- INC share
- 21.2% → 41.3%
- MUL share
- 0.0% → 40.6%
- Turnout
- — → —