Constituency
257. Burdwan South
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-BURDWAN-SOUTH
INC 71.7%won by 43.5%CPM 28.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 43.5%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 47.8% to 71.7% of the vote here (+23.9%).
- 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
65,636
Margin
28,548
43.49%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INCSince 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +45.7%
- INC share
- 47.8% → 71.7%
- CPM share
- 50.1% → 28.3%
- Turnout
- — → —