West Bengal assembly election, Mar 1971

279 assembly constituencies in West Bengal, 58.56% turnout.

Seats

279

Candidates

1,405

0 women, 0 elected

Turnout

58.56%

1.29 cr of 2.2 cr

Leading party

CPM

113 of 279 seats

Party performance

Ordered by seats won in West Bengal

Party	Won	+/−	Contested	Votes	Share	Share +/−
CPM Communist Party of India (Marxist)	113	+33	241	42,41,557	32.86%	+12.89
INC Indian National Congress	105	+50	239	37,67,314	29.19%	-12.13
CPI Communist Party of India	13	-17	110	10,91,578	8.46%	+1.46
IND Independent	12	+1	207	8,24,986	6.39%	+2.80
SUC SUC	7	0	24	2,04,711	1.59%	+0.07
BAC BAC	5	-28	137	6,95,376	5.39%	-2.78
FBL All India Forward Bloc	3	-18	52	3,74,141	2.90%	-2.11
RSP Revolutionary Socialist Party	3	-9	40	2,64,323	2.05%	-0.76
PSP Praja Socialist Party	3	-2	20	1,47,176	1.14%	-0.17
RCI RCI	3	+1	7	46,153	0.36%	-0.02
NCO Indian National Congress (Organisation)	2	+2	219	7,23,229	5.60%	—
JKP JKP	2	+2	23	80,543	0.62%	—
WPI WPI	2	0	3	62,927	0.49%	+0.13
MFB MFB	2	+1	3	50,974	0.39%	+0.19
IGL IGL	2	-2	3	38,380	0.30%	-0.24
BJS Bharatiya Jana Sangh	1	+1	23	1,05,251	0.82%	-0.07
BBC BBC	1	+1	3	16,384	0.13%	+0.07
SSP Samyukta Socialist Party	0	-9	24	69,567	0.54%	-1.32
LSS LSS	0	-4	11	52,980	0.41%	-0.33
PML PML	0	-3	2	13,821	0.11%	-1.45
SML SML	0	0	2	11,853	0.09%	—
BIB BIB	0	0	2	8,918	0.07%	—
SOC SOC	0	0	3	7,696	0.06%	—
HMS HMS	0	0	3	6,038	0.05%	-0.10
RSM RSM	0	0	3	551	0.00%	—
RPI RPI	0	0	1	510	0.00%	-0.08

CPM113 (41%)
INC105 (38%)
CPI13 (5%)
IND12 (4%)
SUC7 (3%)
BAC5 (2%)
Others24 (9%)

CPM113
INC105
CPI13
IND12
SUC7
BAC5
Others24

CPM113
INC105
CPI13
IND12
SUC7
BAC5
FBL3
RSP3
Others18

Constituency performance

From the 279 results in West Bengal

Closest contest

KHARGRAM

won by 19 (0.05%)

Biggest victory

RANIGANJ

won by 24,408 (52.28%)

Highest turnout

SAGAR

76.96%

Lowest turnout

JORABAGAN

30.77%

Seat change

Against West Bengal's previous Vidhan Sabha election (1969), matched constituency-for-constituency

Retained126 (45%)
Changed hands130 (47%)
New seat23 (8%)

126 constituencies were won by the same party as last time; 130 changed hands. 23 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 279 seats, alphabetical · showing 51–100 of 279

Assembly seat	Winner	Runner-up	Margin	Turnout
BURTOLA	INCAJIT KUMAR PANJA	CPMLAKESHMI KANTA DEY	9,75826.40%	45.4%
CANNING	INCGOBINDA CHANDRA NASKAR	CPMCHITTA RANJAN MRIDHA	1530.28%	64.3%
CHAKDAH	CPMBASU SUBHASH CHANDRA	BACSURAL CHANDRA MANDAL	12,74022.13%	64.1%
CHAMPDANI	CPMHARI PADA MUKHERJEE	INCNISITH KAMAL SANYAI	10,29421.24%	61.1%
CHANDERNAGORE	CPMBHABANI MUKHERJEE	INCBEPIN BEHARI SAV	12,58822.05%	67.9%
CHANDITAIA	CPMKAJI SAFIULLA	INCSK SAHADAT ALI	9,75529.11%	47.3%
CHANDRAKONA	CPMCHOUDHURY SOROSHI	INCSUHAS DUTTA ROY	6,28313.06%	68.6%
CHAPRA	CPMSAHABUDDIN MONDAL	INDABU BAKKAR MONDAL	9,24322.27%	62.1%
CHHATNA	INCKAMALAKANTA HEMRAM	BIBDATTA RABI	7,93426.66%	36.2%
CHINSURAH	INCBHUPATI MAJUMDAR	CPMAMIYA KUMAR NANDY	2370.44%	59.3%
CHOPRA	INCCHOWDHURY ABDUL KARIM	CPMBACHCHA MUNSHI	2,9637.49%	49.6%
CHOWRINGHEE	INCSANKAR GHOSE	CPMPARBATI PRASANNA BASU	8,50128.12%	42.2%
CONTAI NORTH	PSPANIL KUMAR MAMMA	INCSAILAJA DAS	2,1274.25%	63.3%
CONTAI SOUTH	PSPSUDHIR CHANDRA DAS	NCOSATYABRATA MAITY	4,4809.53%	60.9%
COOCH BEHAR NORTH	INCSUNIL KAR	CPMSHIRENDRA NARAYAN CHOUDHURY	7,66514.92%	61.3%
COOCH BEHAR SOUTH	INCSANTOSH KUMAR ROY	CPMGOPAL CHANDRA SAHA	6,59413.31%	66.8%
COOCH BEHAR WEST	INCRAJANI DAS	CPMSUDHIR PRAMANIK	8,81617.65%	55.8%
COSSIPUR	INCPRAFULLA KANTI GHOSH	CPMKRISHNA GOPAL BASU	10,14523.31%	48.5%
DANTAN	CPIPULIN BEHARI TRIPATHY	NCOPRADYOT KUMAR MAHANTI	2770.56%	66.3%
DARJEELING	IGLDEO PRAKASH RAI	INCMADAN KUMAR THAPA	5,86518.23%	50.9%
DASPUR	INCSUDHIR CHANDRA BERA	CPMBHATTACHARIYA MRIGENDRA	4,1087.30%	68.5%
DEBRA	INCRABINDRA NATH BERA	CPMSIBARAM BASU	1,5373.27%	74.4%
DEGANGA	INDHARUN OP RASHID	INCM. SAWKFTALI	10,95125.44%	57.6%
DHAKURIA	CPISOMNATH LAHIRI	CPMHARIDAS MALAKER	8,05816.93%	55.9%
DHANIAKHALI	CPMKASINATH ROY	INCKASHINATH PATRA	3,5936.97%	70.5%
DHUPGURI	INCBHAWANI PAUL	SSPANILDHAR GUHA NEOGI	1920.49%	53.5%
DIAMOND HARBOUR	CPMABDUL QUIYOM MOLLA	INCDAULAT ALI SEIKH	2,9044.91%	69.3%
DINHATA	INCJOGESH CHANDRA SARKAR	FBLKAMAL KANTI GUHA	2,4264.52%	63.4%
DOMJUR	CPMJOYKESH MUKHER JEE	INCREBATI RANJAN MUKHOPADHYAY	18,91733.09%	66.4%
DOMKAL	CPMMD. ABDUL BARI	INDMAIDUL ISIAM KHONDAKAR	5,26012.48%	55.1%
DUBRAJPUR	CPMSK. MANJURUL ISLAM	INCMOHAMMAD IDRIS	6,13319.90%	39.4%
DUM DUM	CPMTARUN KUMAR SEN GUPTA	PSPBIDYUT KUMAR BASU	9,31312.81%	57.4%
DURGAPUR	CPMDILIP KUMAR MAJUMDAR	NCOANANDA GOPAL MUKHERJEE	4,7765.72%	53.2%
ENGLISHBAZAR	CPIBIMAL KANTI DAS	BJSHARI PRASANNA MISRA	2,2274.92%	61.2%
ENTALLY	CPMMD. NEZAMUDDIN	CPIA M O GANI	3,1038.88%	51.3%
ERGA	PSPPROBOIDH CHANDRA SINHA	CPMPAL NANI GOPAL	14,21427.60%	61.0%
FALAKATA	INCJAGDANANDA ROY	CPMABHOYA CHARAN BARMAN	1,9954.90%	55.3%
FALTA	CPMJYOTISH ROY	INCPROBHAT MAJHI	15,36928.79%	65.5%
FARAKKA	CPMJERAT ALI	INDJOHAD AHMED	8131.88%	50.9%
FARIDPUR	CPMSANAT KUMAR BANERJEE	INCSRI DASGHATAK	8,19619.46%	55.3%
GAIGHATA	INCCHANDI PADA MITRA	CPMKESHAB LAL BISWAS	2,3865.22%	68.9%
GAJOL	CPMSUPHAL MURMU	BACBENJAMIN HEMBROM	4,46610.36%	59.1%
GALSI	CPMANIL ROY	BACMANORANJAN BAKSHI	8,98523.86%	49.4%
GANGAJALGHATI	CPMBAUSI KALIPADA	INCSAKTIPADA MAJI	6,64118.56%	43.9%
GANGARAMPUR	INCAHMED MOSTEHUDDIN	CPMAHINDRA SARKAR	13,18428.15%	64.0%
GARDEN REACH	INCS M. ABDULIAM	CPMCHHEDI LAL	890.20%	51.3%
GARHBETA EAST	CPIKRISHNA PRASAD DULEY	INCMADAN MOHAN GURIA	1,7443.44%	64.5%
GARHBETA WEST	CPISAROJ ROY	CPMMANOHAR MAHATA	1,2702.48%	65.5%
GHATAL	CPMDAL NANDA RANI	BACKARIIK DOLUI	10,51821.77%	70.2%
GOALPOKHAR	INCSEIKH SHARAFAT HOSSAIN	PMLNIZAMUDDIN	1,5434.89%	42.8%

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.