Constituency
181. Pursurah
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-PURSURAH
INC 64.2%won by 33.2%IND 31.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 15.6% to 33.2%.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 31.0% — it did not contest here in 1971.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.2% of the vote between them, up from 69.2% — 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
50,339
Margin
16,730
33.23%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1MAHADEB MUKHOPADHYAIndian National Congress · INC32,32464.2%
- 2MRINAL KANTI MAJUMDERIndependent · IND15,59431.0%
- 3MONORANJAN MAITYNCO · NCO2,4214.8%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −9.2%
- INC share
- 42.4% → 64.2%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 31.0%
- Turnout
- — → —