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 101–150 of 280

Assembly seat	Winner	Runner-up	Margin	Turnout
GOGHAT	FBLAJIT KUMAR BISWAS	INCMADAN MEDDYA	3,5998.19%	61.1%
GOPIBALLAVPUR	SSPKAR DHANANJOY	INCSURENDRA NATH MAHATA	6,17112.45%	64.2%
GOSABA	RSPGANESH CHANDRA MONDAL	INCHAZARI MONDAL	10,58721.54%	72.1%
HABIBPUR	CPINIMAI CHAND MURMU	INCBOILA MURMU	340.07%	65.4%
HABRA	INCTARUN KANTI GHOSH	BACD.C. CHATTERJEE	4,8358.39%	73.5%
HANSAN	FBLMONDAL MRITYUNJOY	INCSHIROMANI PROSAD	6,21821.61%	45.0%
HANSKHALI	BACCHARUMINIR SARKAR	INCANANDA MOHAN BISWAS	3,0406.06%	68.5%
HARIHARPARA	PMLAHAMMAD AKTABUDDIN	BACABDUR RASHID MANDAL	14,82030.01%	70.7%
HARINGHATA	INDBAKSH MOHAMMAD KARIN	INCSARKAR NARENDRA NATH	4,9449.00%	70.2%
HARIPAL	SSPAMALES CHADRA HAZUMDAR	INCNETAI CHADRA BANDOPADHYA	4,1458.99%	74.1%
HARISHCHANDRAPUR	WPIMD. ELIAS RAZI	INCBIRENDRA KUMAR MAITRA	1950.40%	76.3%
HAROA	BACBRAJENDRA NATH SARKAR	INCAMALENDU SEKHAR NASKAR	2,9446.86%	64.7%
HASNABAD	CPIABDUR RAZZAQUE KHAN	INCHARENDRA NATH MAZUMDAR	2,6096.42%	62.7%
HINGALGANJ	CPIHAZARI LAL MONDAL	INCTARAPADA MONDAL	7,66115.71%	72.8%
HIRAPUR	CPMBAMAPADA MUKHERJEE	INCSIBDAS GHATAK	6,84015.59%	59.0%
HOWRAH CENTRAL	RCIANADI DAS	INCDWIJENDRA NATH MITRA	9,10318.78%	63.5%
HOWRAH NORTH	INCNIRMAL KUMAR MUKHERJEE	CPMCHITABRATA MAJUNDAR	2390.45%	63.3%
HOWRAH SOUTH	CPMPRALAY TALUKDAR	INCB.K. BHATTACHARYA	7,03713.04%	63.7%
HURA	LSSSAHARENDRA OJHA	INCSATADAL MAHATO	3441.03%	46.2%
INDAS	BACABANI KUMAR SAHA	INCSANATAN SANTRA	7,39718.85%	58.6%
INDPUR	BACGOUR LOHAR	INCBENODE BEHARI MAJI	10,76424.34%	55.5%
ITAHAR	INCABEDIN ZAINAL	CPICHATTAPADHYAV BASANTLAL	2,0143.88%	75.8%
JADAVPUR	CPMBIKESH CHANDRA GUHA	INCAUROBINDO BOSE	19,79028.59%	66.8%
JAGATBALLAVPUR	CPMTARAPADA DEY	INCAMRITA LAL HAZRA	10,94520.97%	74.1%
JAIPUR	INCRAM KRISHNA MAHATO	LSSASHOKE CHOUDHURY	1110.38%	42.1%
JALANGI	INCAZIZUR RAHMAN	INDABDUL KADIR	5,82113.77%	65.4%
JALPAIGURI	CPINARES CHANDRA CHAKRAVORTY	INCKHAGENDRA NATH DAS GUPTA	2,8765.28%	72.8%
JAMALPUR	BACBASUDEB MALIK	INCPURANJOY PRAMANIK	8,59620.81%	62.0%
JAMURIA	INCAMARENDRA MONDAL	SSPDURGADAS MODAL	8933.29%	48.9%
JANGIPARA	CPMMANINDA NATH JANA	INCKANAI LALL DEV	8,25517.09%	68.6%
JANGIPUR	RSPABDUL HAQUE	INCMUKTIPADA CHATTAPADHAYA	2,3535.39%	59.4%
JHALDA	INCDEBENDRA NATH MAHATA	FBLCHITTARNAJAN MAHATO	1,4333.08%	64.0%
JHARGRAM	BACDE PANCHKARI	INCGHOSH PRAFULA CHANDRA	2,9765.89%	65.5%
JORABAGAN	INCROY NEPAL CHANDRA	CPMCHATTERJEE HARA PRASAD	1,0661.83%	59.3%
JORASANKO	INCDEOKINANDAN PODDAR	FBLGUPTA SHYAMSUNDER	4,4979.53%	55.5%
JORE BUNGALOW	IGLNANDALAL GURUNG	INCPADAM BAHADUR GURUNG	4,60817.21%	47.8%
JOYNAGAR	SUCSUBODH BANERJEE	INCRABINDRA NATH BHOSE	6,32710.89%	73.2%
KABITIRTHA	FBLKALIMUDDIN SHAMS	INCSATYA NARAYAN GHOSAL	10,79019.87%	66.4%
KAKDWIP	INCHANSADHWAJ DHARA	CPMHARISHIKESH MAITY	3,2665.40%	76.7%
KALCHINI	INCDENIS LAKRA	RSPJOHN ARTHUR BUKHLA URAO	7,47727.55%	58.6%
KALIACHAK	INCSHAMSUDDIN AHMAD	INDPROMODE RANJAN BOSE	4,7619.69%	66.8%
KALIAGANJ	INCBARMAN SYAMA PRASAD	CPMNANI GOPAL ROY	3,78310.56%	59.1%
KALIGANJ	INCS . M . FAZLUR RAHMAN	BACRAFIUDDIN MONDAL	1,8513.61%	76.5%
KALIGHAT	CPMSADHAN GUPTA	INCBIVA MITRA	5,27910.35%	65.5%
KALIMPONG	IGLP . L . SUBBA	INCK . B . GURUNG	4,29815.37%	48.8%
KALNA	CPMHARE KRISHNA KONAR	INCDEBENDRA BEJOY GHOSH	7,19613.95%	71.5%
KALYANPUR	BACSUNIL KUMAR MITRA	INCARABINDA ROY	8,19115.38%	72.4%
KAMARHATI	CPMRADHIKA RANJAN BANERJEE	INCAJOY GHOSAL	20,50430.94%	70.7%
KANDI	INDKUMAR J . C . SINHA	INCGOAL BADAN TRIVEDI	4,2968.28%	68.4%
KARANDIGHI	FBLSURESH CHANDRA SINHA	NDFHAJI SUJJAD HUSSAIN	8692.17%	53.8%

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.

Frequently asked

Straight answers to the questions this result page exists to answer.

Who won the West Bengal assembly election, Feb 1969?

Communist Party of India (Marxist) won 80 of 280 seats in West Bengal, short of a majority on its own.

What was the voter turnout in the West Bengal assembly election, Feb 1969?

Turnout was 64.80% — 1.34 cr of 2.07 cr registered electors voted.

How many assembly seats does West Bengal have?

West Bengal has 280 assembly seats.