Constituency
175. Chinsurah
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-CHINSURAH
INC 53.7%won by 8.6%FBL 45.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.4% to 8.6%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) to FBL (FBL).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.7% of the vote between them, up from 87.7% — 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
55,217
Margin
4,766
8.63%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1BHUPAJU MAJUMDARIndian National Congress · INC29,63553.7%
- 2GHOSE SAMBHU CHARANFBL · FBL24,86945.0%
- 3SANAT MAJUMDARNCO · NCO7131.3%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–FBL swing
- −24.1%
- INC share
- 44.1% → 53.7%
- FBL share
- 11.3% → 45.0%
- Turnout
- — → —