Constituency
513. Ausgram
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-AUSGRAM
CPM 46.4%won by 26.3%BAC 20.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.0% to 26.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerBAC (BAC) finished second with 20.1% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.5% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
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Electorate
6,29,094
Turnout
54.9%
Valid votes
3,45,030
Margin
90,912
26.35%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1HALDER KRISHNA CHANDRACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,60,10046.4%
- 2MAHADEB SAHABAC · BAC69,18820.1%
- 3RAM PANCHANANCommunist Party of India · CPI57,38716.6%
- 4DAS SANKARNCO · NCO54,39915.8%
- 5NIMAI SAHAIndependent · IND3,9561.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–BAC swing
- −25.1%
- CPM share
- 51.5% → 46.4%
- BAC share
- 0.0% → 20.1%
- Turnout
- 56.5% → 54.9%