Constituency
214. Dantan
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-DANTAN
NCO 47.2%won by 9.1%CPI 38.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to NCO (NCO), which now leads by 9.1%.
- NCO vote shareNCO went from 31.4% to 47.2% of the vote here (+15.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.3% of the vote between them, up from 63.3% — 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
45,588
Margin
4,135
9.07%
Candidates
3 contested · winner NCO- 1PRADYOT KUMAR MAHANTINCO · NCO21,50647.2%
- 2DWIBEDI RABINDRANATHCommunist Party of India · CPI17,37138.1%
- 3MUKHERJEE DURGADASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM6,71114.7%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- NCOflipped
- NCO–CPI swing
- +9.6%
- NCO share
- 31.4% → 47.2%
- CPI share
- 31.9% → 38.1%
- Turnout
- — → —