Constituency
169. Uttarpara
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-UTTARPARA
CPM 50.0%won by 0.0%CPI 50.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 23.7% to 0.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 88.5% — 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
54,098
Margin
8
0.01%
Candidates
2 contested · winner CPMSince 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–CPI swing
- −23.7%
- CPM share
- 56.1% → 50.0%
- CPI share
- 32.4% → 50.0%
- Turnout
- — → —