Constituency
481. Darjeeling
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-DARJEELING
CPM 33.2%won by 4.8%IGL 28.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 4.8%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 17.0% to 33.2% of the vote here (+16.2%).
- New challengerIGL (IGL) finished second with 28.4% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.6% between them, down from 77.8% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 5.4% to 50.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,02,303
Turnout
50.6%
Valid votes
2,54,313
Margin
12,277
4.83%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1RATANLALL BRAHMANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM84,40833.2%
- 2GURUNG G. S.IGL · IGL72,13128.4%
- 3MAITREYEE BASUIndependent · IND66,03526.0%
- 4THAKUR PRASADIndependent · IND16,9466.7%
- 5AMAL KUMAR BHATTACHARYAPraja Socialist Party · PSP14,7935.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–IGL swing
- −12.1%
- CPM share
- 17.0% → 33.2%
- IGL share
- 0.0% → 28.4%
- Turnout
- 56.1% → 50.6%