Constituency
500. Howrah
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-HOWRAH
CPM 47.7%won by 7.9%INC 39.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 7.9%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 35.5% to 47.7% of the vote here (+12.2%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.5% of the vote between them, up from 82.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 13.2% to 52.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,99,034
Turnout
52.8%
Valid votes
3,16,410
Margin
25,042
7.91%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1SAMAR MUKHERJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,50,91747.7%
- 2MRITYUNJOY BANERJEEIndian National Congress · INC1,25,87539.8%
- 3SHYAM SUNDAR GUPTAFBL · FBL22,4647.1%
- 4DEV SADHAN BASUNCO · NCO17,1545.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +19.1%
- CPM share
- 35.5% → 47.7%
- INC share
- 46.7% → 39.8%
- Turnout
- 66.0% → 52.8%