Constituency
173. Singur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-SINGUR
CPI 55.9%won by 16.8%CPM 39.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.5% to 16.8%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.1% of the vote between them, up from 83.4% — 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
54,023
Margin
9,058
16.77%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1AJIT KUMAR BASUCommunist Party of India · CPI30,21355.9%
- 2GOPAL BANDOPADHYACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM21,15539.2%
- 3PROBHAKAR PALNCO · NCO2,6554.9%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–CPM swing
- +12.3%
- CPI share
- 43.9% → 55.9%
- CPM share
- 39.5% → 39.2%
- Turnout
- — → —