Constituency
179. Dhaniakhali
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-DHANIAKHALI
INC 56.0%won by 12.0%CPM 44.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 12.0%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 39.4% to 56.0% of the vote here (+16.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 85.8% — 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
51,707
Margin
6,207
12.00%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INCSince 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +19.0%
- INC share
- 39.4% → 56.0%
- CPM share
- 46.4% → 44.0%
- Turnout
- — → —