Constituency
196. Bhagabanpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-BHAGABANPUR
INC 43.8%won by 11.1%CPM 32.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 11.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 15.3% to 43.8% of the vote here (+28.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 76.5% of the vote between them, up from 49.1% — 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
49,775
Margin
5,541
11.13%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1ADHAYAPAK AMALES JANAIndian National Congress · INC21,81543.8%
- 2PRADHAN PRASANTA KUMARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM16,27432.7%
- 3HARIPADA JANANCO · NCO9,92219.9%
- 4BIPIN BIHARI MUNIYANSOP · SOP1,3702.8%
- 5SUDHINDRA KUMARIndependent · IND3940.8%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +21.1%
- INC share
- 15.3% → 43.8%
- CPM share
- 25.3% → 32.7%
- Turnout
- — → —