Constituency
137. Kalighat
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-KALIGHAT
INC 65.0%won by 31.3%CPM 33.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 19.4% to 31.3%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.7% of the vote between them, up from 91.0% — 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
48,996
Margin
15,324
31.28%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INCSince 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- +11.9%
- INC share
- 55.2% → 65.0%
- CPM share
- 35.8% → 33.7%
- Turnout
- — → —