Constituency
176. Polba
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-POLBA
INC 54.9%won by 11.5%CPM 43.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 11.5%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 38.7% to 54.9% of the vote here (+16.2%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.4% of the vote between them, up from 85.3% — 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
54,221
Margin
6,242
11.51%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INCSince 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +19.4%
- INC share
- 38.7% → 54.9%
- CPM share
- 46.6% → 43.4%
- Turnout
- — → —