Constituency
185. Chandrakona
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-CHANDRAKONA
CPI 53.4%won by 10.2%CPM 43.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 10.2%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 23.5% to 53.4% of the vote here (+29.9%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.6% of the vote between them, up from 72.0% — 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
49,419
Margin
5,039
10.20%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPISince 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–CPM swing
- +29.3%
- CPI share
- 23.5% → 53.4%
- CPM share
- 42.5% → 43.2%
- Turnout
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