Constituency
512. Vishnupur
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-VISHNUPUR
CPM 33.3%won by 0.8%INC 32.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 0.8%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 11.8% to 33.3% of the vote here (+21.5%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.7% between them, down from 84.6% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.8% to 55.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,35,867
Turnout
55.2%
Valid votes
2,95,726
Margin
2,460
0.83%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1AJIT KUMAR SAHACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM98,43833.3%
- 2KHAN GURU PADAIndian National Congress · INC95,97832.5%
- 3KRISHNA CHANDRA DULEYBAC · BAC42,55314.4%
- 4INDRAJIT TANGICommunist Party of India · CPI40,05313.5%
- 5DR. PASHUPATI MANDALNCO · NCO18,7046.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +38.2%
- CPM share
- 11.8% → 33.3%
- INC share
- 49.1% → 32.5%
- Turnout
- 57.9% → 55.2%