Constituency
94. Basanti
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-BASANTI
INC 50.8%won by 6.1%RSP 44.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 6.0% to 6.1%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) to Rashtriya Sarvajan Party (RSP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.5% of the vote between them, up from 56.9% — 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
52,882
Margin
3,223
6.09%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1PANCHANAN SINHAIndian National Congress · INC26,87350.8%
- 2ASHOKE CHAUDHURIRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP23,65044.7%
- 3JNANENDRA PRASAD BARMANMUL · MUL2,3594.5%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–RSP swing
- −3.3%
- INC share
- 31.5% → 50.8%
- RSP share
- 22.0% → 44.7%
- Turnout
- — → —