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Constituency

209. Salbani

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1972

WB-SALBANI

CPI 48.2%won by 11.5%CPM 36.7%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 11.5%.

  • CPI vote shareCPI went from 20.1% to 48.2% of the vote here (+28.1%).
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.9% of the vote between them, up from 46.5% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
44,170
Margin
5,082
11.51%

Since 1971

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPIflipped
CPICPM swing
+17.9%
CPI share
20.1% 48.2%
CPM share
26.5% 36.7%
Turnout