Constituency
506. Tamluk
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-TAMLUK
BAC 36.1%won by 1.8%CPI 34.3%
What changed here
DerivedBAC held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 36.9% to 1.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 32.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 34.3% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.5% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 7.7% to 71.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,52,570
Turnout
71.2%
Valid votes
3,93,633
Margin
7,271
1.85%
Candidates
5 contested · winner BAC- 1SATIS CHANDRA SAMANTABAC · BAC1,42,29436.1%
- 2ARUNA ASAF ALICommunist Party of India · CPI1,35,02334.3%
- 3SATYA GOPAL MISRACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM58,87215.0%
- 4SUBODH CHANDRA MAITINCO · NCO53,45613.6%
- 5GOBINDA BHOWMIKIndependent · IND3,9881.0%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- BAC
- Winner now
- BAC
- BAC–CPI swing
- −66.6%
- BAC share
- 68.5% → 36.1%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 34.3%
- Turnout
- 79.0% → 71.2%