Constituency
182. Khanakul
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-KHANAKUL
INC 60.7%won by 24.8%CPM 35.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 24.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 33.0% to 60.7% of the vote here (+27.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.6% of the vote between them, up from 74.7% — 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
44,651
Margin
11,077
24.81%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1BASUDEB HAJRAIndian National Congress · INC27,10060.7%
- 2MADAN MOHAN SAHACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM16,02335.9%
- 3PANCHANAN DIGPATINCO · NCO1,5283.4%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +33.6%
- INC share
- 33.0% → 60.7%
- CPM share
- 41.8% → 35.9%
- Turnout
- — → —