Constituency
174. Haripal
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-HARIPAL
WPI 50.9%won by 2.0%INC 48.9%
What changed here
DerivedWPI held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.7% to 2.0%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.7% of the vote between them, up from 87.0% — 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
47,342
Margin
943
1.99%
Candidates
3 contested · winner WPI- 1CHITTARANJAN BASUWPI · WPI24,07450.9%
- 2CHANDRA SEKHAR BANKIndian National Congress · INC23,13148.9%
- 3KRISHIKESH DEYIndependent · IND1370.3%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- WPI
- Winner now
- WPI
- WPI–INC swing
- −10.7%
- WPI share
- 49.9% → 50.9%
- INC share
- 37.2% → 48.9%
- Turnout
- — → —