Constituency
133. Bow Bazar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-BOW-BAZAR
INC 64.6%won by 29.3%CPM 35.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 30.3% to 29.3%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 91.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
- 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
39,130
Margin
11,454
29.27%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INCSince 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- −1.0%
- INC share
- 60.7% → 64.6%
- CPM share
- 30.4% → 35.4%
- Turnout
- — → —