Constituency
180. Tarakeswar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-TARAKESWAR
INC 54.3%won by 8.6%IND 45.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: MFB (MFB) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 8.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 26.2% to 54.3% of the vote here (+28.1%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 45.7% — it did not contest here in 1971.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 81.9% — 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
51,982
Margin
4,466
8.59%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1BALAI LAL SHETHIndian National Congress · INC28,22454.3%
- 2RAM CHATTERJEEIndependent · IND23,75845.7%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- MFB
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- −17.6%
- INC share
- 26.2% → 54.3%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 45.7%
- Turnout
- — → —