Constituency
275. Mahammad Bazar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-MAHAMMAD-BAZAR
INC 54.7%won by 9.4%CPM 45.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 9.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 28.4% to 54.7% of the vote here (+26.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 74.0% — 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
35,735
Margin
3,369
9.43%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1NITAI PADA GHOSHIndian National Congress · INC19,55254.7%
- 2DHIREN SENCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM16,18345.3%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +26.7%
- INC share
- 28.4% → 54.7%
- CPM share
- 45.6% → 45.3%
- Turnout
- — → —