Constituency
262. Kalna
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-KALNA
INC 97.8%won by 96.3%CPM 1.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 96.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 42.6% to 97.8% of the vote here (+55.3%).
- 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
63,872
Margin
61,524
96.32%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INCSince 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +108.2%
- INC share
- 42.6% → 97.8%
- CPM share
- 54.4% → 1.5%
- Turnout
- — → —