West Bengal assembly election, Feb 1969

280 assembly constituencies in West Bengal, 64.80% turnout.

Seats

280

Candidates

1,019

19 women, 7 elected

Turnout

64.80%

1.34 cr of 2.07 cr

Leading party

CPM

80 of 280 seats

Party performance

Ordered by seats won in West Bengal

Party	Won	+/−	Contested	Votes	Share	Share +/−
CPM Communist Party of India (Marxist)	80	+37	97	26,76,981	19.97%	+1.86
INC Indian National Congress	55	-72	280	55,38,622	41.32%	+0.19
BAC BAC	33	-1	49	10,94,654	8.17%	-1.99
CPI Communist Party of India	30	+14	36	9,38,472	7.00%	+0.47
FBL All India Forward Bloc	21	+8	28	6,71,664	5.01%	+0.58
RSP Revolutionary Socialist Party	12	+12	17	3,75,983	2.80%	—
IND Independent	11	-20	101	4,81,092	3.59%	-9.90
SSP Samyukta Socialist Party	9	+2	15	2,49,362	1.86%	-0.27
SUC SUC	7	+7	7	2,02,721	1.51%	—
PSP Praja Socialist Party	5	-2	24	1,75,890	1.31%	-0.57
LSS LSS	4	+4	6	99,844	0.74%	—
IGL IGL	4	+4	4	71,665	0.53%	—
PML PML	3	+3	40	2,08,574	1.56%	—
RCI RCI	2	+2	4	51,181	0.38%	—
WPI WPI	2	+2	2	47,391	0.35%	—
NDF NDF	1	+1	97	1,18,650	0.89%	—
MFB MFB	1	+1	1	27,143	0.20%	—
LKD Lok Dal	0	0	58	1,39,575	1.04%	—
BJS Bharatiya Jana Sangh	0	-1	50	1,19,307	0.89%	-0.44
PBI PBI	0	0	59	36,444	0.27%	—
BJD Biju Janata Dal	0	0	16	25,081	0.19%	—
HMS HMS	0	0	8	19,627	0.15%	—
RPI RPI	0	0	9	10,796	0.08%	+0.07
SWA Swatantra Party	0	-1	4	8,927	0.07%	-0.74
BBC BBC	0	0	2	7,512	0.06%	—
PBK PBK	0	0	3	6,780	0.05%	—
MIL MIL	0	0	2	372	0.00%	—

CPM80 (29%)
INC55 (20%)
BAC33 (12%)
CPI30 (11%)
FBL21 (8%)
RSP12 (4%)
Others49 (18%)

CPM80
INC55
BAC33
CPI30
FBL21
RSP12
Others49

CPM80
INC55
BAC33
CPI30
FBL21
RSP12
IND11
SSP9
SUC7
PSP5
Others17

Constituency performance

From the 280 results in West Bengal

Closest contest

HABIBPUR

won by 34 (0.07%)

Biggest victory

RAGHUNATHPUR

won by 18,724 (55.24%)

Highest turnout

SAGAR

81.29%

Lowest turnout

PARA

35.22%

Seat change

Against West Bengal's previous Vidhan Sabha election (1967), matched constituency-for-constituency

Retained120 (43%)
Changed hands140 (50%)
New seat20 (7%)

120 constituencies were won by the same party as last time; 140 changed hands. 20 did not exist at the previous election.

India’s constituencies have not been redrawn since the 2008 delimitation, so this compares the same seat boundary both times.

Vote share & turnout trend

West Bengal, every Vidhan Sabha election on record

VOTE SHARE

TURNOUT

Assembly seat results

All 280 seats, alphabetical · showing 1–50 of 280

Assembly seat	Winner	Runner-up	Margin	Turnout
ALIPORE	CPIMANI SANYAL	INCNARENDAR NATH SEN	6981.38%	62.5%
ALIPURDUARS	RSPNANI BHATTACHARYA	INCDHIRENDRA KUMAR BHOWMIK	1,9013.93%	63.6%
AMTA	CPMNITAI BHANDARI	INCHARANATH CHAKRABARTY	8,42716.23%	67.5%
ARAMBAGH	INCPRAFULLA CHANDRA SEN	BACAJOY KUMAR MUKHOPADHYAY	15,26425.18%	77.8%
ARSA	FBLDAHAN CHANDRA KUIRI	INCSANAT KUMAR MOKHARJEE	4,89713.10%	48.5%
ASANSOL	CPMLOKES GHOSH	INCGOPIKA RANJAN MITRA	6,53814.82%	54.3%
ASHOKENAGAR	CPISADHAN KUMAR SEN	INCK.R. CHATTOPADHAYA	13,66425.11%	68.6%
AUSGRAM	CPMKRISHNA CHANDRA HALDER	INCSANKAR DAS	10,08224.50%	54.1%
BADURIA	CPMMIR ABDUS SAYEED	INCQUAZI ABDUL GAFFAR	7,61514.08%	74.9%
BAGDAHA	FBLAPURBA LAL MAJUMDAR	INCCHITTA RANJAN ROY	6,13913.64%	72.1%
BALAGARH	CPMHBINASH PRAMANIK	INCHAREKRISHNA DAS	10,09020.83%	72.8%
BALARAMPUR	LSSGOBARDHAN MAJHI	INCKRISTA MAJHI	6,10822.17%	39.8%
BALLY	CPMPATIT PABAN PATHAK	INCSAILENDRA NATH MUKHERJEE	5,2798.31%	60.1%
BALLYGUNGE	WPIJYOTIBHUSAN BHATTACHARYA	INCRANADEB CHOUDHURI	5,08312.40%	61.7%
BALURGHAT	RSPMUKAL BASU	INCRANAJIT BASU	9,91120.53%	72.9%
BANDUAN	INCBUDHESWAR MAJHI	LSSKANDRU MAJHI	1,4333.78%	50.4%
BANGNAN	CPMNIRUPAMA CHATTERJEE	INCRANJIT GHOSH CHOWDHURY	12,10323.04%	74.8%
BANKURA	CPIBIRESWAR GHOSH	INCSATYANARAYAN MITRA	15,60930.63%	59.1%
BARA BAZAR	INCSARAOGI RAM KRISHNA	BJSLAKHOTIA RAMNIWAS	14,23230.35%	50.3%
BARABANI	CPMSUNIL BASU ROY	INCMIHIR UPADHYAY	8,28822.51%	51.5%
BARANAGAR	CPMJYOTI BASU	INCA.N. BHATTACHARJEE	17,59224.02%	77.6%
BARASAT	FBLSARAL DEB	INCASHOKE KRISHNA DUTT	7,41012.54%	69.1%
BARJORA	CPMASWINI KUMAR RAJ	INCA.P. CHATTOPADHYAY	15,54928.57%	65.0%
BARUIPUR	SSPKUMUD RANJAN MONDAL	INCSUSHIL KUMAR LASKAR	4,1777.69%	72.5%
BARWAN	RSPAMALENDRA LAL RAY	INCGHOSH MOULIK SUNIL MOHAN	4,3859.84%	55.9%
BASANTI	RSPASHOKE CHAUDHURI	INCJASIMUDDIN AHMED	1,8853.39%	65.5%
BASIRHAT	CPIA.B. BANDYOPADHYAYA	INCRADHAKISHORE GHOSH	3,6556.75%	70.6%
BEHALA EAST	CPMNIRANJAN MUKHERJEE	INCBHOLANATH MUKHERJEE	13,25128.19%	64.5%
BEHALA WEST	CPMRABIN MUKHERJEE	INCRAMEN ROY	16,05323.94%	66.4%
BELDANGA	INDMUHAMMED KHUDA BUKHSH	RSPTIMIR BARAN BHADURI	1,0281.80%	76.1%
BELGACHIA	CPMLAKSHMICHARAN SEN	INCSUCHIT KUMAR SUR	13,01823.25%	67.6%
BELIAGHATA NORTH	CPMKRISHNAPADA GHOSH	INCBISWAS SANKULAL	15,71533.19%	68.9%
BELIAGHATA SOUTH	CPMMANRANJAN BARAL	INCGANESH PROSAD ROY	1,5123.56%	65.2%
BERHAMPORE	CPISANAT KUMAR RAHA	INCSREEPADA BHATTACHARYYA	12,18325.79%	63.3%
BHAGABANGOLA	SSPSAILENDRA NATH ADHICARY	INCSATYABRATA BHATTACHARYYA	5261.28%	63.4%
BHAGABANPUR	INCMAITY ABHA	BACMAITY BANABEHARI	2,3084.32%	75.4%
BHANGAR	INCA.K.M. ISHAQUE	LKDAMIR ALI MOLLA	2,9736.22%	63.8%
BHARATPUR	RSPSATYAPADA BHATTACHARYYA	INCBIMALENDU NARAYAN ROY	4,85911.30%	58.6%
BHATAR	CPIASWINI ROY	INCSANTIMOY HEZRAM	15,54940.55%	57.6%
BHATPARA	CPMSITARAM GUPTA	INCDAYARAM BERI	2,2363.32%	66.0%
BIJPUR	CPMJAGADISH CHANDRA DAS	INCBIJESH CHANDRA SEN	1,8363.37%	74.2%
BINPUR	CPISAREN JOYRAM	INCSAREN MANGAL CHANDRA	3,4658.64%	55.0%
BISHNUPUR EAST	CPMSUNDAR KUMAR HASKAR	INCSATISH CHANDRA GAYAN	2,0364.34%	66.4%
BISHNUPUR WEST	CPMPROVASH CHANDRA ROY	INCJUGAL CHARAN SANTRA	6,79311.86%	77.8%
BOLPUR	INDPANNALAL DAS GUPTA	INCRADHA KRISHNA SINGHA	9,87223.60%	60.4%
BONGAON	CPIAJIT KUMAR GANGULY	INCKALIPADA BHOWMICK	7,11914.37%	72.1%
BOW BAZAR	INCBIJOY SINGH NAHAR	FBLD.C. BHOWMICK	7,92920.76%	50.5%
BUDGE BUDGE	CPMKHITI BHUSAN ROY BARMAN	INCPRANKRISHNA MUKHERJEE	13,49422.20%	67.1%
BURDWAN NORTH	CPMDEBARATA DATTA	INCJIBEN KRISHNA BISWAS	12,64627.22%	63.1%
BURDWAN SOUTH	CPMBENOY KRISHNA CHOUDHURI	INCSASHI BHUSAN CHOUDHURI	5,69710.92%	57.5%

Vote share and swing on this page are the party’s share of valid votes in West Bengal alone — a different number from its national or all-state figures, and never mixed with them.