Constituency
256. Burdwan North
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-BURDWAN-NORTH
INC 67.7%won by 35.3%CPM 32.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 35.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 34.0% to 67.7% of the vote here (+33.6%).
- 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
54,403
Margin
19,213
35.32%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INCSince 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +64.0%
- INC share
- 34.0% → 67.7%
- CPM share
- 62.7% → 32.3%
- Turnout
- — → —