Constituency
518. Birbhum
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-BIRBHUM
CPM 39.6%won by 4.1%INC 35.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 4.1%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 39.6% of the vote here (+39.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 75.1% of the vote between them, up from 58.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 8.0% to 41.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,91,845
Turnout
41.5%
Valid votes
2,03,890
Margin
8,385
4.11%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1GADADHAR SAHACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM80,71239.6%
- 2KANAI SAHAIndian National Congress · INC72,32735.5%
- 3SANKAR BAURIFBL · FBL40,17619.7%
- 4SRISTI DHAR JOSHNCO · NCO10,6755.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +40.4%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 39.6%
- INC share
- 36.3% → 35.5%
- Turnout
- 49.5% → 41.5%