Constituency
208. Garhbeta West
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-GARHBETA-WEST
CPI 53.1%won by 19.4%CPM 33.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.5% to 19.4%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.9% of the vote between them, up from 52.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
43,414
Margin
8,423
19.40%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPI- 1SAROJ ROYCommunist Party of India · CPI23,07353.1%
- 2MANOHAR MAHATACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM14,65033.7%
- 3TUDU PRANKRISHNAJan Kalyan Party · JKP4,1829.6%
- 4DEPHANI BHUSANIndependent · IND9502.2%
- 5SINHA ROY PANCHANANNCO · NCO5591.3%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–CPM swing
- +16.9%
- CPI share
- 27.3% → 53.1%
- CPM share
- 24.8% → 33.7%
- Turnout
- — → —