Constituency
255. Galsi
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-GALSI
CPI 53.5%won by 10.3%CPM 43.2%
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 10.3%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 0.0% to 53.5% of the vote here (+53.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.7% of the vote between them, up from 89.3% — 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
42,020
Margin
4,341
10.33%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1ROY ASWINICommunist Party of India · CPI22,48653.5%
- 2ANIL ROYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM18,14543.2%
- 3KHAN ABDUL KADERNCO · NCO1,3893.3%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–CPM swing
- +66.9%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 53.5%
- CPM share
- 56.6% → 43.2%
- Turnout
- — → —