Constituency
499. Calcutta South
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-CALCUTTA-SOUTH
INC 50.7%won by 7.7%CPM 43.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 7.7%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 37.6% to 50.7% of the vote here (+13.1%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.6% of the vote between them, up from 87.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.0% to 57.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,01,831
Turnout
57.0%
Valid votes
2,86,169
Margin
22,039
7.70%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1PRIYA RANJANDAS MUNSIIndian National Congress · INC1,44,95250.7%
- 2GANESH GHOSHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,22,91343.0%
- 3GOBIND LAL BANERJEENCO · NCO9,9713.5%
- 4ASHUTOSH BANERJEESUC · SUC8,3332.9%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +20.4%
- INC share
- 37.6% → 50.7%
- CPM share
- 50.3% → 43.0%
- Turnout
- 61.1% → 57.0%