Constituency
199. Contai South
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-CONTAI-SOUTH
IND 43.9%won by 0.4%NCO 43.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 0.4%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 8.1% to 43.9% of the vote here (+35.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.4% of the vote between them, up from 67.8% — 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
45,558
Margin
167
0.37%
Candidates
3 contested · winner IND- 1DAS SUDHIR CHANDRAIndependent · IND20,00143.9%
- 2SATYABRATA MAITYNCO · NCO19,83443.5%
- 3KAR RAM SANKARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM5,72312.6%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–NCO swing
- +21.4%
- IND share
- 8.1% → 43.9%
- NCO share
- 29.1% → 43.5%
- Turnout
- — → —