Constituency
197. Khajuri
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-KHAJURI
INC 61.7%won by 35.8%CPM 25.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 35.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 0.0% to 61.7% of the vote here (+61.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.6% of the vote between them, up from 58.8% — 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
45,406
Margin
16,250
35.79%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1BIMAL PAIKIndian National Congress · INC28,00361.7%
- 2JAGADISH CHANDRA DASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM11,75325.9%
- 3ABANTI KUMAR DASNCO · NCO3,7598.3%
- 4SANKHARANI MIDYASOP · SOP1,1662.6%
- 5MEGHNAD MONDALIndependent · IND7251.6%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +67.4%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 61.7%
- CPM share
- 31.6% → 25.9%
- Turnout
- — → —