Constituency
491. Basirhat
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-BASIRHAT
INC 41.3%won by 17.6%CPM 23.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: BAC (BAC) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 17.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 29.1% to 41.3% of the vote here (+12.1%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 23.6% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.9% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 10.3% to 58.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,37,387
Turnout
58.0%
Valid votes
3,11,804
Margin
54,910
17.61%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1A. K. M. ISHAQUEIndian National Congress · INC1,28,64041.3%
- 2MD. ABDULLARASULCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM73,73023.6%
- 3MOHAMMAD ELIASCommunist Party of India · CPI53,75517.2%
- 4K. ABUBACKAR MAKKARIndependent · IND40,28412.9%
- 5BIJESH CHANDRA SENNCO · NCO10,6203.4%
- 6PHANI DUTTAIndependent · IND4,7751.5%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- BAC
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- −11.5%
- INC share
- 29.1% → 41.3%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 23.6%
- Turnout
- 68.3% → 58.0%