Constituency
99. Sonarpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-SONARPUR
CPI 56.1%won by 13.5%CPM 42.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 13.5%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 25.4% to 56.1% of the vote here (+30.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.8% of the vote between them, up from 79.6% — 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
54,680
Margin
7,372
13.48%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPI- 1KANSARI HALDERCommunist Party of India · CPI30,70056.1%
- 2GANGADHAR NASKARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM23,32842.7%
- 3ABINAS HALDARRPI · RPI4630.8%
- 4BISHNU PADA BISWASIndependent · IND1890.3%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–CPM swing
- +42.3%
- CPI share
- 25.4% → 56.1%
- CPM share
- 54.2% → 42.7%
- Turnout
- — → —