Constituency
496. Barrackpore
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-BARRACKPORE
CPM 56.3%won by 16.6%CPI 39.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.3% to 16.6%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.0% of the vote between them, up from 72.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.7% to 66.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
7,60,565
Turnout
66.5%
Valid votes
5,05,600
Margin
83,775
16.57%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPM- 1MD. ISMAILCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,84,59056.3%
- 2RENU CHAKRABORTYCommunist Party of India · CPI2,00,81539.7%
- 3JAGANNATH PANDAYNCO · NCO20,1954.0%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–CPI swing
- +10.3%
- CPM share
- 39.2% → 56.3%
- CPI share
- 32.9% → 39.7%
- Turnout
- 69.2% → 66.5%