West Bengal assembly election, Mar 1971

The 6th West Bengal legislative assembly. Polled.

Seats declared

279

140 needed for a majority

Largest party

CPM

113 seats · short of a majority

Candidates

1,405

0 women, 0 elected

Turnout

58.56%

1.29 cr of 2.2 cr

The house

279 seats, each dot one assembly constituency

CPM113
INC105
CPI13
IND12
SUC7
BAC5
FBL3
RSP3
Others18

Biggest movements

Seat change against the previous West Bengal assembly election (1969)

INC

+50

CPM

+33

BAC

-28

FBL

-18

CPI

-17

RSP

-9

SSP

-9

LSS

-4

PML

-3

Parties

Ordered by seats won

Party	Won	+/−	Contested	Strike rate	Votes	Share	Share +/−	Deposits lost
CPM Communist Party of India (Marxist)	113	+33	241	37.4%	42,41,557	32.86%	+12.89	28
INC Indian National Congress	105	+50	239	34.8%	37,67,314	29.19%	-12.13	25
CPI Communist Party of India	13	-17	110	21.0%	10,91,578	8.46%	+1.46	51
IND Independent	12	+1	207	8.9%	8,24,986	6.39%	+2.80	172
SUC SUC	7	0	24	18.9%	2,04,711	1.59%	+0.07	13
BAC BAC	5	-28	137	11.0%	6,95,376	5.39%	-2.78	109
FBL All India Forward Bloc	3	-18	52	15.5%	3,74,141	2.90%	-2.11	32
RSP Revolutionary Socialist Party	3	-9	40	15.3%	2,64,323	2.05%	-0.76	27
PSP Praja Socialist Party	3	-2	20	16.8%	1,47,176	1.14%	-0.17	13
RCI RCI	3	+1	7	16.1%	46,153	0.36%	-0.02	4
NCO Indian National Congress (Organisation)	2	—	219	7.1%	7,23,229	5.60%	—	198
JKP JKP	2	—	23	7.2%	80,543	0.62%	—	20
WPI WPI	2	0	3	48.3%	62,927	0.49%	+0.13	0
MFB MFB	2	+1	3	40.9%	50,974	0.40%	+0.19	1
IGL IGL	2	-2	3	40.9%	38,380	0.30%	-0.24	0
BJS Bharatiya Jana Sangh	1	+1	23	11.2%	1,05,251	0.81%	-0.08	16
BBC BBC	1	+1	3	12.5%	16,384	0.13%	+0.07	2
SSP Samyukta Socialist Party	0	-9	24	6.8%	69,567	0.54%	-1.32	23
LSS LSS	0	-4	11	14.3%	52,980	0.41%	-0.34	8
PML PML	0	-3	2	19.4%	13,821	0.11%	-1.45	1
SML SML	0	—	2	13.7%	11,853	0.09%	—	1
BIB BIB	0	—	2	10.5%	8,918	0.07%	—	1
SOC SOC	0	—	3	6.9%	7,696	0.06%	—	3
HMS HMS	0	0	3	4.2%	6,038	0.05%	-0.10	3
RSM RSM	0	—	3	0.5%	551	0.00%	—	3
RPI RPI	0	0	1	1.1%	510	0.00%	-0.08	1

Vote share is the share of valid votes cast in West Bengal at this election. A party’s national share is a different number and is never mixed with this one.

Largest victories of Mar 1971

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Assembly seat	State	Winner	Runner-up	Margin
RANIGANJ	West Bengal	CPMHARADHAN ROY	INCRABINDRA MUKHERJEE	24,40852.28%
SUZAPUR	West Bengal	INCA. B. ATAWALGANIKHAN CHOWDHURI	INDHABIBUR RAHAMAN	21,70744.75%
KAMARHATI	West Bengal	CPMRADHIKA RANJAN BANERJEE	CPISUNIL MUKHERJEE	29,08741.61%
TAMLUK	West Bengal	BACAJOY KUMAR MUKHOPADHAYA	CPMDEVA PRASAD BHOWMIK	20,07339.44%
PANIHATI	West Bengal	CPMGOPAL KRISHNA BHATTACHER JEE	CPINANDADULAL SRIMANI	34,26639.05%
PANSKURA EAST	West Bengal	CPIGEETA MUKHOPADHYAYA	BACBIRBHADRA GOURI	19,12638.55%
MURARAI	West Bengal	SUCBAZLE AHMAD	INCMD. MANSURAL HAGUE	11,55138.05%
AMTA	West Bengal	CPMBAPINDRA KOLEY	INCGUNKAR SINGH	18,95437.78%
KHARAGPUR	West Bengal	INCGYAN SINGH SOHANPAL	CPIKARUNAMAY BHATTACHARYA	15,31237.06%
JAIPUR	West Bengal	INCRAMKRISHNA MAHATO	BACBHARAT CHANDRA BHANDARI	10,83835.44%

Closest results of Mar 1971

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Assembly seat	State	Winner	Runner-up	Margin
KHARGRAM	West Bengal	INCNARENDRA HALDAR	CPMDINABANDHU HAJHI	190.05%
KHARAGPUR LOCAL	West Bengal	INCAJIT KUMAR BASU	CPIDEBEN DAS	320.07%
SANDESHKHALI	West Bengal	CPMSARAT SARDER	INCDEBENDRA NATH SINHA	470.10%
RAIPUR	West Bengal	JKPSAREN BABULAL	INCBABULAL HEMRAM	700.16%
NARGHAT	West Bengal	BACBANKIM BEHARI MAITY	CPISWADES KUMAR MANNA	910.17%
GARDEN REACH	West Bengal	INCS M. ABDULIAM	CPMCHHEDI LAL	890.20%
MAGRAHAT WEST	West Bengal	BACSUDHENDU MANDLE	CPMCHHOBAN GABL	1500.26%
CANNING	West Bengal	INCGOBINDA CHANDRA NASKAR	CPMCHITTA RANJAN MRIDHA	1530.28%
JALANGI	West Bengal	BJSPRAFULLA KUMAR SARKAR	INDAHAMMAD FAHYMUDDIN	1030.29%
JOYNAGAR	West Bengal	SUCSUBODH BANERJEE	INCPROSUN GHOSH	2480.43%