Constituency
212. Kharagpur Local
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-KHARAGPUR-LOCAL
INC 62.0%won by 26.7%CPM 35.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.1% to 26.7%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (CPI) to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.2% of the vote between them, up from 77.8% — 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
42,744
Margin
11,406
26.68%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1AJIT KUMAR BASUIndian National Congress · INC26,48162.0%
- 2SEKH SIRAJ ALICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM15,07535.3%
- 3PURNA TUDUJan Kalyan Party · JKP1,1882.8%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- +4.8%
- INC share
- 38.9% → 62.0%
- CPM share
- 17.0% → 35.3%
- Turnout
- — → —