Constituency
490. Barasat
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-BARASAT
CPI 33.3%won by 2.8%CPM 30.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.2% to 2.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 30.5% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 63.8% between them, down from 72.4% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 9.9% to 61.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,45,889
Turnout
61.5%
Valid votes
3,35,858
Margin
9,239
2.75%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPI- 1RANENDRA NATH SENCommunist Party of India · CPI1,11,80633.3%
- 2HEMANTA GANGOPADHYAYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,02,56730.5%
- 3C. F. ALIIndependent · IND65,00019.4%
- 4DIJESH CHANDRA CHATTERJEEBAC · BAC35,17610.5%
- 5AMARENDRA NATH BHATTACHARJEENCO · NCO21,3096.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–CPM swing
- −38.1%
- CPI share
- 40.8% → 33.3%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 30.5%
- Turnout
- 71.4% → 61.5%