Constituency
145. Sealdah
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-SEALDAH
INC 69.7%won by 39.4%FBL 30.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 25.6% to 39.4%.
- New challengerFBL (FBL) finished second with 30.3% — it did not contest here in 1971.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 82.4% — 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
53,121
Margin
20,925
39.39%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1SOMENDRA NATH MITRAIndian National Congress · INC37,02369.7%
- 2SHYAM SUNDAR GUPTAFBL · FBL16,09830.3%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–FBL swing
- −14.6%
- INC share
- 54.0% → 69.7%
- FBL share
- 0.0% → 30.3%
- Turnout
- — → —