Constituency
193. Sutahata
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-SUTAHATA
CPI 50.2%won by 24.4%CPM 25.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: BAC (BAC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 24.4%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 24.8% to 50.2% of the vote here (+25.4%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (CPI) to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 76.0% of the vote between them, up from 60.0% — 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
51,055
Margin
12,459
24.40%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1RABINDRA NATH KARANCommunist Party of India · CPI25,64150.2%
- 2LAKSHMAN CHANDRA SETHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM13,18225.8%
- 3SHIBANATH DASIndependent · IND12,23224.0%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- BAC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–CPM swing
- +14.1%
- CPI share
- 24.8% → 50.2%
- CPM share
- 14.5% → 25.8%
- Turnout
- — → —