Constituency
192. Mahishadal
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-MAHISHADAL
INC 62.8%won by 42.6%IND 20.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: BAC (BAC) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 42.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 9.5% to 62.8% of the vote here (+53.3%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (CPI) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 83.0% of the vote between them, up from 71.4% — 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
53,960
Margin
23,010
42.64%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1AHINDRA MISRAIndian National Congress · INC33,90662.8%
- 2SHUSHIL KUMAR DHARAIndependent · IND10,89620.2%
- 3DINABAHDHU MANDALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM9,15817.0%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- BAC
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- +37.1%
- INC share
- 9.5% → 62.8%
- IND share
- 4.0% → 20.2%
- Turnout
- — → —