Constituency
113. Kulpi
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-KULPI
INC 64.8%won by 32.3%SUC 32.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 32.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 0.0% to 64.8% of the vote here (+64.8%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from NCO (NCO) to SUC (SUC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.2% of the vote between them, up from 44.7% — 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
47,975
Margin
15,512
32.33%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1SANTOSH KUMAR MANDALIndian National Congress · INC31,06764.8%
- 2SASANKA SEKHAR NAIYASUC · SUC15,55532.4%
- 3RAMESH HALDARNCO · NCO1,2182.5%
- 4MAKHAN CHANDRA BAIDYAIndependent · IND1350.3%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SUC swing
- +50.1%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 64.8%
- SUC share
- 17.7% → 32.4%
- Turnout
- — → —