Constituency
224. Jhalda
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-JHALDA
INC 51.9%won by 3.9%FBL 48.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.6% to 3.9%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 77.6% — 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
36,252
Margin
1,410
3.89%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1KINKAR MAHATOIndian National Congress · INC18,83151.9%
- 2CHITTARANJAN MAHATOFBL · FBL17,42148.1%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–FBL swing
- −11.7%
- INC share
- 46.6% → 51.9%
- FBL share
- 31.0% → 48.1%
- Turnout
- — → —