Constituency
203. Pataspur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-PATASPUR
INC 72.1%won by 44.2%CPM 27.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.9% to 44.2%.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 27.9% — it did not contest here in 1971.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 82.8% — 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
46,931
Margin
20,757
44.23%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1PRAFULLA MAITYIndian National Congress · INC33,84472.1%
- 2JAGDISH DASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM13,08727.9%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- −0.1%
- INC share
- 44.3% → 72.1%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 27.9%
- Turnout
- — → —