Constituency
220. Banduan
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-BANDUAN
INC 53.6%won by 19.2%CPM 34.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.6% to 19.2%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from LSS (LSS) to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.9% of the vote between them, up from 65.1% — 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
27,280
Margin
5,247
19.23%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1SITAL CHANDRA HEMBRAMIndian National Congress · INC14,60953.6%
- 2RAMESH MAJHICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM9,36234.3%
- 3JAGADISH MAJHIJan Kalyan Party · JKP1,8386.7%
- 4BUDHESWAR MAJHINCO · NCO1,4715.4%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- −5.9%
- INC share
- 33.3% → 53.6%
- CPM share
- 8.2% → 34.3%
- Turnout
- — → —