Constituency
149. Burtola
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-BURTOLA
INC 68.5%won by 40.0%CPM 28.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 26.4% to 40.0%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.9% of the vote between them, up from 80.7% — 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
44,956
Margin
17,997
40.03%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1AJIT KUMAR PANJAIndian National Congress · INC30,77868.5%
- 2LAKSHMI KANTA DEYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM12,78128.4%
- 3ASIM BANERJEENCO · NCO1,3973.1%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- +13.6%
- INC share
- 53.5% → 68.5%
- CPM share
- 27.1% → 28.4%
- Turnout
- — → —