Constituency
104. Garden Reach
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-GARDEN-REACH
CPM 50.4%won by 2.7%INC 47.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 2.7%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 34.0% to 50.4% of the vote here (+16.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.1% of the vote between them, up from 68.1% — 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
50,815
Margin
1,380
2.72%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPM- 1CHHEDILAL SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM25,62550.4%
- 2S. M. ABDULLAHIndian National Congress · INC24,24547.7%
- 3RAM SARANRPI · RPI9451.9%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +2.9%
- CPM share
- 34.0% → 50.4%
- INC share
- 34.2% → 47.7%
- Turnout
- — → —