Constituency
209. Salbani
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-SALBANI
CPI 48.2%won by 11.5%CPM 36.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe 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
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Turnout
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Valid votes
44,170
Margin
5,082
11.51%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPISince 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–CPM swing
- +17.9%
- CPI share
- 20.1% → 48.2%
- CPM share
- 26.5% → 36.7%
- Turnout
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