Constituency
184. Goghat
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-GOGHAT
INC 51.1%won by 8.7%FBL 42.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.8% to 8.7%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) to FBL (FBL).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.5% of the vote between them, up from 55.0% — 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
36,585
Margin
3,193
8.73%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1MADAN MOHAN MEDDAIndian National Congress · INC18,70851.1%
- 2ARATI BISWASFBL · FBL15,51542.4%
- 3NANURAM ROYNCO · NCO1,7774.9%
- 4KARTIK CHANDRA MONDALIndependent · IND5851.6%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–FBL swing
- +1.8%
- INC share
- 30.9% → 51.1%
- FBL share
- 23.9% → 42.4%
- Turnout
- — → —