Constituency
486. Murshidabad
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-MURSHIDABAD
IND 34.4%won by 7.5%IND 26.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.1% to 7.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 13.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.3% between them, down from 91.5% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 6.3% to 54.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,98,691
Turnout
54.7%
Valid votes
2,72,605
Margin
20,382
7.48%
Candidates
5 contested · winner IND- 1CHOWDHURY ABU TALEBIndependent · IND93,71634.4%
- 2SYED BADRUDDUJAIndependent · IND73,33426.9%
- 3SYED KAZIM ALI MEERZAIndependent · IND45,30716.6%
- 4KRISHNADAS CHATTOPADHYAYBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS43,64116.0%
- 5SAILENDRA NATH ADHICARYSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP16,6076.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–IND swing
- 0.0%
- IND share
- 48.3% → 34.4%
- IND share
- 48.3% → 34.4%
- Turnout
- 61.0% → 54.7%