Constituency
272. Dubrajpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-DUBRAJPUR
INC 53.9%won by 7.9%FBL 46.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 7.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 20.8% to 53.9% of the vote here (+33.1%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to FBL (FBL).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 61.5% — 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
37,041
Margin
2,909
7.85%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1SACHI NANDAN SHAWIndian National Congress · INC19,97553.9%
- 2BHAKTI BHUSAN MANDALFBL · FBL17,06646.1%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–FBL swing
- +4.9%
- INC share
- 20.8% → 53.9%
- FBL share
- 17.8% → 46.1%
- Turnout
- — → —