Constituency
487. Berhampore
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-BERHAMPORE
RSP 25.4%won by 3.6%INC 21.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Rashtriya Sarvajan Party (RSP), which now leads by 3.6%.
- RSP vote shareRSP went from 0.0% to 25.4% of the vote here (+25.4%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 47.2% between them, down from 96.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 5.9% to 55.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,38,838
Turnout
55.0%
Valid votes
2,96,245
Margin
10,757
3.63%
Candidates
6 contested · winner RSP- 1TRIDIB CHOUDHURIRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP75,31625.4%
- 2KARIM REZAULIndian National Congress · INC64,55921.8%
- 3KHONDKAR NAZRUL HAQUEIndependent · IND58,26219.7%
- 4SANTOSH KUMAR BHATTACHARYYACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM45,17715.2%
- 5MUHAMMED KHUDA BUKHSHIndependent · IND30,75210.4%
- 6AJIT KUMAR MOITRABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS22,1797.5%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- RSPflipped
- RSP–INC swing
- +50.3%
- RSP share
- 0.0% → 25.4%
- INC share
- 46.6% → 21.8%
- Turnout
- 60.9% → 55.0%