Constituency
247. Asansol
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-ASANSOL
CPI 58.7%won by 19.7%CPM 39.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 19.7%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 42.9% to 58.7% of the vote here (+15.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.7% of the vote between them, up from 87.7% — 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
40,920
Margin
8,081
19.75%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPISince 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–CPM swing
- +21.5%
- CPI share
- 42.9% → 58.7%
- CPM share
- 44.7% → 39.0%
- Turnout
- — → —