Constituency
136. Alipore
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-ALIPORE
INC 68.8%won by 39.7%CPM 29.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.7% to 39.7%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (CPI) to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.8% of the vote between them, up from 82.2% — 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
45,488
Margin
18,051
39.68%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1KANAILALSARKARIndian National Congress · INC31,27768.8%
- 2P. JHACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM13,22629.1%
- 3DURGA DUTT AGARWALNCO · NCO9852.2%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- +7.6%
- INC share
- 46.9% → 68.8%
- CPM share
- 14.8% → 29.1%
- Turnout
- — → —