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West Bengal Lok Sabha Election 1971

Total Constituencies: 40

West Bengal Lok Sabha Election 1971 covered all 40 parliamentary constituencies in the state. The CPM received the highest statewide vote share at 34.29% and won 20 seats, while the INC received 28.20% of the vote and won 13 seats. The CPI won 3 seats with 10.54% of the vote.

Party wise Result Summary

The table below shows party-wise results based on total votes received across West Bengal.

Party NameSeats ContestedSeats WonVote ShareVote Share on ContestedTotal Votes
CPM382034.29%35.73%44,85,105
INCView INC performance in West Bengal Lok Sabha Election 1971
311328.20%36.90%36,87,665
CPIView CPI performance in West Bengal Lok Sabha Election 1971
15310.54%26.54%13,78,813
NCO3407.02%8.15%9,17,947
IND2015.79%11.86%7,56,659
BAC1413.97%11.15%5,18,781
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Explore Lok Sabha Constituencies

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ConstituencyWinnerRunner-upMarginMargin(%)
CandidatePartyVotesCandidatePartyVotes
Cooch Behar (Sc)Benoy Krishna DaschowdhuryINC 1,50,869Nagendra Nath RoyCPM80,26570,60420.3
Jalpaiguri (St)Tuna OraonINC 1,13,104Birsen KujarCPM60,13752,96718.35
DarjeelingRatanlall BrahmanCPM 84,408Gurung G. S.IGL72,13112,2774.83
RaiganjSidhartha Sankar RayINC 1,47,360Subodh SenCPM83,35364,00721.52
Balurghat (Sc)Rasendra Nath BarmanINC 1,59,896Pijush Kanti DasCPM74,61885,27825.38
MaldaDinesh ChandrajoarderCPM 1,37,071Uma RoyINC1,03,30533,76610.33
JangipurLutfal HaqueINC 1,04,170Barun RoyRSP54,81449,35616.42
MurshidabadChowdhury Abu TalebIND 93,716Syed BadruddujaIND73,33420,3827.48
BerhamporeTridib ChoudhuriRSP 75,316Karim RezaulINC64,55910,7573.63
KrishnanagarRenupada DasCPM 1,08,872Ila Pal ChaudhuriINC75,24133,63111.41
Nabadwip (Sc)Bibha GhoshCPM 1,76,543Promotha Ranjan ThakurINC1,65,94310,6002.82
BarasatRanendra Nath SenCPI 1,11,806Hemanta GangopadhyayCPM1,02,5679,2392.75
BasirhatA. K. M. IshaqueINC 1,28,640Md. AbdullarasulCPM73,73054,91017.61
Joynagar (Sc)Sakti Kumar SarkarINC 1,58,943Nirmal Kumar SinhaCPM84,70774,23619.43
Mathurapur (Sc)Madhurjya HaldarCPM 1,11,656Bimalendu Sekhar NaskarINC1,10,0711,5850.38
Diamond HarbourJyotirmoy BasuCPM 2,04,987Ambar Prosad BandopadhayaINC1,31,65173,33619.08
AliporeIndrajit GuptaCPI 1,73,795Kamal SarkarCPM1,46,83726,9587.6
BarrackporeMd. IsmailCPM 2,84,590Renu ChakrabortyCPI2,00,81583,77516.57
Calcutta North WestAsoke Kumar SenINC 1,44,055Prasanta Kumar SurCPM70,77673,27929.13
Calcutta North EastHiren MukherjeeCPI 1,13,230Piyus Kanti Das GuptaCPM1,10,9392,2910.81
Calcutta SouthPriya Ranjandas MunsiINC 1,44,952Ganesh GhoshCPM1,22,91322,0397.7
HowrahSamar MukherjeeCPM 1,50,917Mrityunjoy BanerjeeINC1,25,87525,0427.92
UluberiaShyamaprasanna BhattacharyyaCPM 1,76,192Murari Mohan MannaINC1,23,47252,72013.74
SeramporeDinendra Nath BhattacharyyaCPM 1,67,530Jadu Gopal SenCPI1,05,07262,45818.24
HooghlyBijoy Krishna ModakCPM 2,02,672Phani GhoshINC1,71,20131,4717.37
ArambaghManoranjan HazraCPM 1,37,842Santi Mohan RayINC1,15,62222,2206.59
GhatalJagadish BhattacharyyaCPM 1,28,366Parihal GhoshINC1,27,0441,3220.37
TamlukSatis Chandra SamantaBAC 1,42,294Aruna Asaf AliCPI1,35,0237,2711.85
ContaiSamar GuhaPSP 1,41,540Abha MaityNCO71,18170,35920.73
MidnaporeSubodh Chandra HansdaINC 1,40,326Choubey NarayanCPI1,18,31722,0096.32
Jhargram (St)Amiya Kumar KiskuINC 1,02,762Jadu Nath KiskuCPM88,06914,6934.32
PuruliaDebendra Nath MahataINC 1,30,264Bhajahari MahatoLSS54,22176,04330.24
BankuraSankar Narayan Singh DeoINC 81,144Mahadeb MukherjeeCPM55,64625,49810.37
Vishnupur (Sc)Ajit Kumar SahaCPM 98,438Khan Guru PadaINC95,9782,4600.83
Ausgram (Sc)Halder Krishna ChandraCPM 1,60,100Mahadeb SahaBAC69,18890,91226.35
AsansolRobin SenCPM 1,32,268Narayan ChoudhuryINC98,60833,66012.57
BurdwanChatterjee SomnathCPM 2,03,645Bholanath SenINC1,39,56564,08017.85
KatwaSaroj MukherjeeCPM 2,10,422Dwaipayan SenINC1,41,93568,48718.52
BolpurSaradish RoyCPM 1,15,591Phulrenu GuhaINC78,96636,62514.38
Birbhum (Sc)Gadadhar SahaCPM 80,712Kanai SahaINC72,3278,3854.12

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