Constituency
495. Alipore
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-ALIPORE
CPI 49.0%won by 7.6%CPM 41.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.2% to 7.6%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.4% of the vote between them, up from 64.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 11.2% to 55.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,42,566
Turnout
55.2%
Valid votes
3,54,713
Margin
26,958
7.60%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1INDRAJIT GUPTACommunist Party of India · CPI1,73,79549.0%
- 2KAMAL SARKARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,46,83741.4%
- 3AMIYA NATH BOSEIndependent · IND34,0819.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–CPM swing
- +5.4%
- CPI share
- 32.4% → 49.0%
- CPM share
- 30.2% → 41.4%
- Turnout
- 66.4% → 55.2%