Constituency
225. Jaipur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-JAIPUR
INC 66.9%won by 49.5%FBL 17.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 35.4% to 49.5%.
- New challengerFBL (FBL) finished second with 17.4% — it did not contest here in 1971.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.2% of the vote between them, up from 64.6% — 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
23,390
Margin
11,580
49.51%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1RAMKRISHNA MAHATOIndian National Congress · INC15,64066.9%
- 2MURALI SAHA BABUFBL · FBL4,06017.4%
- 3PADMA LOCHAN MAHATOSOP · SOP3,69015.8%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–FBL swing
- −0.5%
- INC share
- 50.0% → 66.9%
- FBL share
- 0.0% → 17.4%
- Turnout
- — → —