Constituency
479. Cooch Behar
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-COOCH-BEHAR
INC 43.4%won by 20.3%CPM 23.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: FBL (FBL) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 20.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 38.1% to 43.4% of the vote here (+5.3%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 23.1% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.5% between them, down from 89.7% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.6% to 61.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,65,683
Turnout
61.5%
Valid votes
3,47,758
Margin
70,604
20.30%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1BENOY KRISHNA DASCHOWDHURYIndian National Congress · INC1,50,86943.4%
- 2NAGENDRA NATH ROYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM80,26523.1%
- 3AMARENDRANATH ROY PRODHANFBL · FBL77,09022.2%
- 4PRASENJIT BARMANNCO · NCO34,87410.0%
- 5RABINDRANATH SARKERIndependent · IND4,6601.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- −17.8%
- INC share
- 38.1% → 43.4%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 23.1%
- Turnout
- 64.0% → 61.5%