Constituency
134. Chowringhee
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-CHOWRINGHEE
INC 70.6%won by 41.2%CPM 29.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 28.1% to 41.2%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 80.1% — 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
33,505
Margin
13,803
41.20%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1SANKAR GHOSEIndian National Congress · INC23,65470.6%
- 2AMAL DUTTACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM9,85129.4%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- +13.1%
- INC share
- 54.1% → 70.6%
- CPM share
- 26.0% → 29.4%
- Turnout
- — → —