Constituency
148. Manicktola
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-MANICKTOLA
CPI 65.2%won by 32.6%CPM 32.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 32.6%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 21.8% to 65.2% of the vote here (+43.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.8% of the vote between them, up from 76.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
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Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
66,309
Margin
21,616
32.60%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPI- 1ILA MITRACommunist Party of India · CPI43,23865.2%
- 2ANILA DEBICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM21,62232.6%
- 3PREMANANDA BOSENCO · NCO9481.4%
- 4MIHIR SAHABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS5010.8%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–CPM swing
- +50.4%
- CPI share
- 21.8% → 65.2%
- CPM share
- 39.6% → 32.6%
- Turnout
- — → —