Constituency
144. Taltola
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-TALTOLA
INC 54.2%won by 8.8%CPM 45.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.5% to 8.8%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.6% of the vote between them, up from 93.1% — 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
38,222
Margin
3,362
8.80%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1ABDUR RAUF ANSARIIndian National Congress · INC20,71754.2%
- 2ABUL HASANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM17,35545.4%
- 3STANLEY JAMESIndependent · IND1500.4%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- +4.3%
- INC share
- 48.8% → 54.2%
- CPM share
- 44.3% → 45.4%
- Turnout
- — → —