Constituency
128. Cossipur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-COSSIPUR
INC 71.8%won by 43.5%CPM 28.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 23.3% to 43.5%.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
53,365
Margin
23,215
43.50%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INCSince 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- +20.2%
- INC share
- 59.7% → 71.8%
- CPM share
- 36.4% → 28.2%
- Turnout
- — → —