Constituency
273. Rajnagar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-RAJNAGAR
INC 52.7%won by 5.5%FBL 47.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 5.5%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 37.3% to 52.7% of the vote here (+15.5%).
- 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 76.2% — 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
38,661
Margin
2,123
5.49%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1DWIJA PADA SAHAIndian National Congress · INC20,39252.7%
- 2GOPA BAURIFBL · FBL18,26947.3%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–FBL swing
- −12.3%
- INC share
- 37.3% → 52.7%
- FBL share
- 19.5% → 47.3%
- Turnout
- — → —