Constituency
503. Hooghly
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-HOOGHLY
CPM 47.5%won by 7.4%INC 40.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.5% to 7.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.6% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.3% to 67.7%.
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Electorate
6,30,767
Turnout
67.7%
Valid votes
4,26,960
Margin
31,471
7.37%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1BIJOY KRISHNA MODAKCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,02,67247.5%
- 2PHANI GHOSHIndian National Congress · INC1,71,20140.1%
- 3CHITTA BASUFBL · FBL29,4576.9%
- 4PRABHAT KUMAR PALITNCO · NCO23,6305.5%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +4.9%
- CPM share
- 51.2% → 47.5%
- INC share
- 48.8% → 40.1%
- Turnout
- 71.0% → 67.7%