Constituency
116. Kakdwip
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-KAKDWIP
INC 59.5%won by 19.0%CPM 40.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 19.0%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 14.9% to 59.5% of the vote here (+44.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 63.2% — 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
61,879
Margin
11,745
18.98%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INCSince 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +48.7%
- INC share
- 14.9% → 59.5%
- CPM share
- 44.7% → 40.5%
- Turnout
- — → —