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Constituency

185. Chandrakona

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1972

WB-CHANDRAKONA

CPI 53.4%won by 10.2%CPM 43.2%

What changed here

Derived

The 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
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
49,419
Margin
5,039
10.20%

Since 1971

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPIflipped
CPICPM swing
+29.3%
CPI share
23.5% 53.4%
CPM share
42.5% 43.2%
Turnout