Constituency
188. Panskura West
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-PANSKURA-WEST
CPI 66.0%won by 44.4%CPM 21.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 16.0% to 44.4%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.6% of the vote between them, up from 62.5% — 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
42,567
Margin
18,881
44.36%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1SK. OMAR ALICommunist Party of India · CPI28,09066.0%
- 2MONO ANJAN ROYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM9,20921.6%
- 3HAREKRISHNA PATTANAYAKNCO · NCO5,26812.4%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–CPM swing
- +17.1%
- CPI share
- 39.2% → 66.0%
- CPM share
- 12.0% → 21.6%
- Turnout
- — → —