Constituency
207. Garhbeta East
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-GARHBETA-EAST
CPI 54.9%won by 19.8%CPM 35.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.4% to 19.8%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.0% of the vote between them, up from 63.5% — 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
42,394
Margin
8,378
19.76%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPI- 1KRISHNA PRASAD DULEYCommunist Party of India · CPI23,26954.9%
- 2BHUTU DOLOICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM14,89135.1%
- 3KALI KINKAR CHALAKNCO · NCO3,1767.5%
- 4CHALAK NIRANJANJan Kalyan Party · JKP1,0582.5%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–CPM swing
- +12.9%
- CPI share
- 33.5% → 54.9%
- CPM share
- 26.6% → 35.1%
- Turnout
- — → —