Constituency
270. Bolpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-BOLPUR
CPI 48.7%won by 10.5%CPM 38.2%
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 10.5%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 21.3% to 48.7% of the vote here (+27.4%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.0% of the vote between them, up from 73.2% — 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
36,378
Margin
3,826
10.52%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPI- 1HARASANKAR BHATTACHARYACommunist Party of India · CPI17,73248.7%
- 2MUKHERJEE PRASANTHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM13,90638.2%
- 3ASHOKE KRISHNA DUTTNCO · NCO3,6069.9%
- 4GOPEN LAHIRYIndependent · IND7162.0%
- 5AJIT KARSOP · SOP4181.1%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–CPM swing
- +29.0%
- CPI share
- 21.3% → 48.7%
- CPM share
- 39.8% → 38.2%
- Turnout
- — → —