Constituency
222. Balarampur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-BALARAMPUR
INC 54.2%won by 8.4%CPM 45.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 8.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 35.0% to 54.2% of the vote here (+19.2%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 74.3% — 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
30,143
Margin
2,517
8.35%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1RUP SINGH MAJHIIndian National Congress · INC16,33054.2%
- 2BIKRAM TUDUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM13,81345.8%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +12.6%
- INC share
- 35.0% → 54.2%
- CPM share
- 39.3% → 45.8%
- Turnout
- — → —