Constituency
233. Ranibandh
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-RANIBANDH
INC 49.5%won by 3.6%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 3.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 12.5% to 49.5% of the vote here (+37.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.3% of the vote between them, up from 72.0% — 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
38,567
Margin
1,403
3.64%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1AMALA SARENIndian National Congress · INC19,08149.5%
- 2SUCHAND SORENCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM17,67845.8%
- 3HANSDA FAGALJan Kalyan Party · JKP1,8084.7%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +41.5%
- INC share
- 12.5% → 49.5%
- CPM share
- 50.4% → 45.8%
- Turnout
- — → —