Constituency
251. Durgapur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-DURGAPUR
INC 55.9%won by 11.9%CPM 44.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 11.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 0.0% to 55.9% of the vote here (+55.9%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 92.6% — 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
84,738
Margin
10,042
11.85%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INCSince 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +61.0%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 55.9%
- CPM share
- 49.1% → 44.1%
- Turnout
- — → —