Constituency
154. Howrah South
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-HOWRAH-SOUTH
INC 57.0%won by 15.9%CPM 41.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.4% to 15.9%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.1% of the vote between them, up from 83.5% — 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
50,291
Margin
8,002
15.91%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1SANTI KUMAR DAS GUPTAIndian National Congress · INC28,65757.0%
- 2PRALAY TALUKDARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM20,65541.1%
- 3BHOLA SHAWNCO · NCO9791.9%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- +10.5%
- INC share
- 44.4% → 57.0%
- CPM share
- 39.0% → 41.1%
- Turnout
- — → —