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Constituency

99. Sonarpur

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1972

WB-SONARPUR

CPI 56.1%won by 13.5%CPM 42.7%

What changed here

Derived

The 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
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
54,680
Margin
7,372
13.48%

Since 1971

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPIflipped
CPICPM swing
+42.3%
CPI share
25.4% 56.1%
CPM share
54.2% 42.7%
Turnout