Constituency
234. Indpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-INDPUR
INC 57.3%won by 18.0%BIB 39.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Bahujan Congress (BBC) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 18.0%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 17.1% to 57.3% of the vote here (+40.2%).
- New challengerBIB (BIB) finished second with 39.4% — it did not contest here in 1971.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.7% of the vote between them, up from 57.6% — 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
34,045
Margin
6,116
17.96%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1GOUR CHANDRA LOHARIndian National Congress · INC19,52357.3%
- 2GOURHARI MANDALBIB · BIB13,40739.4%
- 3ASHOK KUMAR MANDALIndependent · IND1,1153.3%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- BBC
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BIB swing
- +0.8%
- INC share
- 17.1% → 57.3%
- BIB share
- 0.0% → 39.4%
- Turnout
- — → —