Constituency
194. Nandigram
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-NANDIGRAM
CPI 46.3%won by 7.0%NCO 39.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 18.4% to 7.0%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.7% of the vote between them, up from 66.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
59,572
Margin
4,149
6.96%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPI- 1BHUPAL CHANDRA PANDACommunist Party of India · CPI27,61046.3%
- 2ABHA MAITINCO · NCO23,46139.4%
- 3RABINDRA NATH MAJTICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM7,46812.5%
- 4SK. MOZAMMEL HOSSAINMUL · MUL1,0331.7%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–NCO swing
- −11.5%
- CPI share
- 42.5% → 46.3%
- NCO share
- 24.0% → 39.4%
- Turnout
- — → —