Constituency
493. Mathurapur
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-MATHURAPUR
CPM 27.0%won by 0.4%INC 26.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 0.4%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 27.0% of the vote here (+27.0%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 53.7% between them, down from 88.6% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.3% to 71.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,77,659
Turnout
71.5%
Valid votes
4,13,195
Margin
1,585
0.38%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1MADHURJYA HALDARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,11,65627.0%
- 2BIMALENDU SEKHAR NASKARIndian National Congress · INC1,10,07126.6%
- 3KANSARI HALDARCommunist Party of India · CPI91,68822.2%
- 4ASIS KUMAR SINGHABAC · BAC63,65115.4%
- 5PARESH KOYALNCO · NCO36,1298.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +43.0%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 27.0%
- INC share
- 42.7% → 26.6%
- Turnout
- 73.9% → 71.5%