Constituency
117. Sagar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-SAGAR
CPM 42.7%won by 9.7%IND 33.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 14.7% to 9.7%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 75.7% of the vote between them, up from 68.0% — 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
58,424
Margin
5,647
9.67%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1PRABHONJAN KUMAR MANDALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM24,94242.7%
- 2TRILOKES MISRAIndependent · IND19,29533.0%
- 3JALIN MAITYCommunist Party of India · CPI12,01220.6%
- 4GOBARADHAN DINGALIndependent · IND2,1753.7%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–IND swing
- −22.3%
- CPM share
- 41.3% → 42.7%
- IND share
- 9.4% → 33.0%
- Turnout
- — → —