Constituency
509. Jhargram
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-JHARGRAM
INC 30.2%won by 4.3%CPM 25.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: BAC (BAC) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 4.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 41.7% to 30.2% of the vote here (−11.5%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 25.9% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 56.1% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 9.0% to 64.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,28,392
Turnout
64.3%
Valid votes
3,39,939
Margin
14,693
4.32%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1AMIYA KUMAR KISKUIndian National Congress · INC1,02,76230.2%
- 2JADU NATH KISKUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM88,06925.9%
- 3DAKHIN MURMUJan Kalyan Party · JKP54,93116.2%
- 4ISWAR MANDISamyukta Socialist Party · SSP48,12014.2%
- 5FAKIR TUDUNCO · NCO24,6097.2%
- 6PARAMANANDA SINGHBAC · BAC21,4486.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- BAC
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- −37.4%
- INC share
- 41.7% → 30.2%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 25.9%
- Turnout
- 55.3% → 64.3%