Constituency
507. Contai
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-CONTAI
PSP 41.7%won by 20.7%NCO 21.0%
What changed here
DerivedPraja Socialist Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.8% to 20.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 21.0% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 62.7% between them, down from 88.6% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 5.6% to 63.5%.
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Electorate
5,34,463
Turnout
63.5%
Valid votes
3,39,388
Margin
70,359
20.73%
Candidates
5 contested · winner PSP- 1SAMAR GUHAPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,41,54041.7%
- 2ABHA MAITYNCO · NCO71,18121.0%
- 3SOM NATH BHATTACHARYYACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM61,08218.0%
- 4BASANTA KUMAR DASIndian National Congress · INC39,81711.7%
- 5BIMALA NANDA SASMALIndependent · IND25,7687.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- PSP
- PSP–NCO swing
- −26.0%
- PSP share
- 46.7% → 41.7%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 21.0%
- Turnout
- 69.1% → 63.5%