Constituency
223. Arsa
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-ARSA
INC 50.4%won by 0.8%FBL 49.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.7% to 0.8%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 62.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 217 votes (0.81%) — among the closest results anywhere.
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
26,847
Margin
217
0.81%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1NETAI DESHMUKHIndian National Congress · INC13,53250.4%
- 2DAMAN CHANDRA KUIRIFBL · FBL13,31549.6%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–FBL swing
- −8.9%
- INC share
- 36.3% → 50.4%
- FBL share
- 26.5% → 49.6%
- Turnout
- — → —