Constituency
98. Baruipur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-BARUIPUR
INC 55.2%won by 13.9%CPM 41.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 13.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 35.3% to 55.2% of the vote here (+19.9%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.4% of the vote between them, up from 71.4% — 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
55,443
Margin
7,701
13.89%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1LALIT GAYENIndian National Congress · INC30,57955.2%
- 2BIMAL MISTRICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM22,87841.3%
- 3PROMATHA SARADERMUL · MUL1,6292.9%
- 4KALASASI MANDALPBI · PBI3570.6%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +14.7%
- INC share
- 35.3% → 55.2%
- CPM share
- 36.1% → 41.3%
- Turnout
- — → —