Constituency
211. Kharagpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-KHARAGPUR
INC 79.0%won by 58.1%CPM 21.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 37.1% to 58.1%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (CPI) to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 83.3% — 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
33,825
Margin
19,639
58.06%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INCSince 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- +12.1%
- INC share
- 60.2% → 79.0%
- CPM share
- 14.2% → 21.0%
- Turnout
- — → —