Constituency
243. Sonamukhi
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-SONAMUKHI
INC 59.6%won by 22.2%CPM 37.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 22.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 36.0% to 59.6% of the vote here (+23.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.1% of the vote between them, up from 74.8% — 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
40,914
Margin
9,086
22.21%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1GURU PADA KHANIndian National Congress · INC24,40359.6%
- 2SUKHENDU KHANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM15,31737.4%
- 3MADAN LOHARIndependent · IND1,1942.9%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +25.1%
- INC share
- 36.0% → 59.6%
- CPM share
- 38.8% → 37.4%
- Turnout
- — → —