Constituency
508. Ghatal
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1967
IN-GHATAL
INC 41.6%won by 8.7%CPI 32.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.2% to 8.7%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.5% between them, down from 97.9% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 6.2% to 70.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,75,725
Turnout
70.0%
Valid votes
3,33,179
Margin
28,910
8.68%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1G. PARIMALIndian National Congress · INC1,38,57241.6%
- 2P. KARCommunist Party of India · CPI1,09,66232.9%
- 3C. NIKUNJACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM84,94525.5%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −0.5%
- INC share
- 53.6% → 41.6%
- CPI share
- 44.3% → 32.9%
- Turnout
- 63.8% → 70.0%