Constituency
514. Asansol
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-ASANSOL
CPM 49.4%won by 12.6%INC 36.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 12.6%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 49.4% of the vote here (+49.4%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.2% of the vote between them, up from 78.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 5.8% to 49.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,42,914
Turnout
49.3%
Valid votes
2,67,870
Margin
33,660
12.57%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1ROBIN SENCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,32,26849.4%
- 2NARAYAN CHOUDHURYIndian National Congress · INC98,60836.8%
- 3DEVEN SENSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP21,3648.0%
- 4ATULYA GHOSHNCO · NCO8,1443.0%
- 5SOHAN PRASAD VERMABAC · BAC4,6061.7%
- 6YAR MOHAMMADIndependent · IND2,8801.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +50.3%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 49.4%
- INC share
- 37.7% → 36.8%
- Turnout
- 55.1% → 49.3%