Constituency
238. Bankura
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-BANKURA
INC 61.0%won by 25.5%CPM 35.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.6% to 25.5%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.4% of the vote between them, up from 62.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
46,063
Margin
11,767
25.55%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1KASHINATH MISRAIndian National Congress · INC28,08261.0%
- 2SUMITRA CHATTERJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM16,31535.4%
- 3ARUP MUKHOPADHYAYAHMS · HMS1,0532.3%
- 4BHUTNATH GHOSHIndependent · IND6131.3%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- +13.9%
- INC share
- 36.8% → 61.0%
- CPM share
- 25.2% → 35.4%
- Turnout
- — → —