West Bengal assembly election, Mar 1972

280 assembly constituencies in West Bengal, 59.11% turnout.

Seats

280

Candidates

833

0 women, 0 elected

Turnout

59.11%

1.33 cr of 2.26 cr

Leading party

INC

216 of 280 seats

Party performance

Ordered by seats won in West Bengal

Party	Won	+/−	Contested	Votes	Share	Share +/−
INC Indian National Congress	216	+111	238	65,43,251	49.08%	+19.89
CPI Communist Party of India	35	+22	41	11,10,579	8.33%	-0.13
CPM Communist Party of India (Marxist)	14	-99	208	36,59,808	27.45%	-5.41
IND Independent	5	-7	116	4,72,556	3.54%	-2.85
RSP Revolutionary Socialist Party	3	0	17	2,84,643	2.14%	+0.09
NCO Indian National Congress (Organisation)	2	0	64	1,96,044	1.47%	-4.13
IGL IGL	2	0	3	35,802	0.27%	-0.03
SUC SUC	1	-6	13	2,38,276	1.79%	+0.20
MUL Indian Union Muslim League	1	+1	27	1,21,208	0.91%	—
WPI WPI	1	-1	3	63,673	0.48%	-0.01
FBL All India Forward Bloc	0	-3	18	3,31,244	2.48%	-0.41
SOP SOP	0	0	26	1,09,062	0.82%	—
JKP JKP	0	-2	20	68,806	0.52%	-0.11
RCI RCI	0	-3	3	47,038	0.35%	0.00
BJS Bharatiya Jana Sangh	0	-1	16	25,149	0.19%	-0.63
BIB BIB	0	0	1	13,407	0.10%	+0.03
RPI RPI	0	0	5	3,885	0.03%	+0.03
HMS HMS	0	0	3	2,646	0.02%	-0.03
IAL IAL	0	0	4	2,382	0.02%	—
PBI PBI	0	0	6	1,904	0.01%	—
RSM RSM	0	0	1	154	0.00%	0.00

INC216 (77%)
CPI35 (13%)
CPM14 (5%)
IND5 (2%)
RSP3 (1%)
NCO2 (1%)
Others5 (2%)

INC216
CPI35
CPM14
IND5
RSP3
NCO2
Others5

INC216
CPI35
CPM14
IND5
RSP3
NCO2
IGL2
SUC1
Others2

Constituency performance

From the 280 results in West Bengal

Closest contest

UTTARPARA

won by 8 (0.01%)

Biggest victory

KALNA

won by 61,524 (96.32%)

Highest turnout

BELIAGHATA NORTH

88.01%

Lowest turnout

JAIPUR

31.50%

Seat change

Against West Bengal's previous Vidhan Sabha election (1971), matched constituency-for-constituency

Retained122 (44%)
Changed hands132 (47%)
New seat26 (9%)

122 constituencies were won by the same party as last time; 132 changed hands. 26 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	INCKANAILALSARKAR	CPMP. JHA	18,05139.68%	51.5%
ALIPURDUARAS	INCNARYAN BHATTACHARYA	RSPNANI BHATACHARIYA	6,45813.11%	60.0%
AMTA	INCAFIABUDDIN MONDAL	CPMBARINDRA KOLEY	1,6123.07%	65.1%
ARAMBAGH	NCOPRAFULLA CHANDRA SEN	INCSANTI MOHAN ROY	14,93228.50%	63.8%
ARSA	INCNETAI DESHMUKH	FBLDAMAN CHANDRA KUIRI	2170.81%	33.6%
ASANSOL	CPINIRANJAN DIHIDAR	CPMBEJOY PAL	8,08119.75%	44.2%
ASHOKENAGAR	INDKESHAB CHANDRA BATTACHARJEE	CPMNANI KAR	4,1327.37%	61.9%
AUSGRAM	CPMSRIDHAR MALIK	INCBANS DHAR SAHA	3290.69%	56.6%
BADURIA	INCQUAZI ABDUL GAFFAR	CPMMIR ABDUL SAYED	13,92128.57%	65.5%
BAGDAHA	INDAPURBA LAL MAZUMDER	CPMKANTI CHANDRA BISWAS	10,42226.64%	60.0%
BALAGARH	INCBIREN SARKAR	CPMABINASH PRAMANIK	4,7809.85%	68.4%
BALARAMPUR	INCRUP SINGH MAJHI	CPMBIKRAM TUDU	2,5178.35%	37.0%
BALLY	INCBHABANI SANKAR MUKERJEE	CPMPATIT PABON PATHAK	6,33512.33%	57.0%
BALLYGUNGE	INCSUBRATA MUKHOPADHAYA	WPIJYOTI BHUSAN BHATTACHARYA	14,66428.63%	63.7%
BALURGHAT	INCBIRESWAR ROY	RSPBASU MUKUL	5,36810.05%	68.4%
BANDUAN	INCSITAL CHANDRA HEMBRAM	CPMRAMESH MAJHI	5,24719.23%	35.0%
BANKURA	INCKASHINATH MISRA	CPMSUMITRA CHATTERJEE	11,76725.55%	49.2%
BARA BAZAR	INCRAMKRISHNA SARAOGI	CPMMURLIDHAR SANTHALIA	19,92455.33%	36.9%
BARABANI	INCSUKUMAR BANDYOPADHYAY	CPMSUNIL BASU ROY	18,06443.81%	50.5%
BARANAGAR	CPISHIBA PADA BHATTACHARJEE	CPMJYOTI BASU	38,98739.26%	86.6%
BARASAT	INCKANTI RANGAN CHATTERJEE	FBLSARAL DEB	10,15317.92%	58.4%
BARJORA	INCSUDHANGSHU SEKHAR TEWARY	CPMASWANI KUMAR RAI	6,06612.55%	55.1%
BARUIPUR	INCLALIT GAYEN	CPMBIMAL MISTRI	7,70113.89%	67.6%
BARWAN	INCGHOSH MOULIK SUNIL MOHAN	RSPAMALENDRA LAL ROY	7,21318.13%	46.6%
BASANTI	INCPANCHANAN SINHA	RSPASHOKE CHAUDHURI	3,2236.09%	57.9%
BASIRHAT	INCLALIT KUMAR GHOSH	CPMNARAYAN MUKHERJEE	12,28725.86%	58.2%
BEGNAN	INCSUSANTA BHATTACHARJEE	CPMNIRUPAMA CHATTERJEE	1,2282.34%	69.9%
BEHALA EAST	INCINDRAJIT MAJUMDER	CPMNIRAJAN MUKHERJEE	10,20621.41%	61.2%
BEHALA WEST	CPIBISWANATH CHAKRABARTY	CPMRABI MUKHERJEE	1,9153.09%	55.1%
BELDANGA	RSPTIMIR BARAN BHADURI	INCABDUL LATIF	1,5033.36%	52.1%
BELGACHIA	INCGANAPATI SUR	CPMLAKSHMI CHARANSEN	12,07419.67%	63.0%
BELIAGHATA NORTH	INCANANTA KUMAR BHARATI	CPMKRISHNAPADA GHOSH	39,03656.81%	88.0%
BELIAGHATA SOUTH	INCARDHENDU SEKHAR NASKAR	CPMSUMANTA HIRA	26,28554.44%	66.5%
BERHAMPORE	INCSANKAR DAS PAUL	RSPDEBABRATA BANDOPADHYAY	16,78736.41%	57.4%
BHAGABANGOLA	INCMOHAMMAD DEDAR BAKSH	SOPADHICARY SAILENDRA NATH	16,70447.85%	50.2%
BHAGABANPUR	INCADHAYAPAK AMALES JANA	CPMPRADHAN PRASANTA KUMAR	5,54111.13%	66.1%
BHANGAR	CPMABDUR RAZZAK MOLLA	INCMD NURUZZAMAN	1,8664.66%	50.9%
BHARATPUR	INCKUMAR DIPTI SEN GUPTA	CPMKH MD NURE AHASAN	5,49613.18%	52.5%
BHATAR	INCBHOLANATH SEN	CPMANATH BANDHU GHOSE	19,84845.32%	59.2%
BHATPARA	INCSATYANARAYAN SINGHA	CPMSITA RAM GUPTA	13,50715.83%	74.0%
BIJPUR	INCJ. C. DAS S/O AKUL	CPMJ. C. DAS S/O MATILAL	14,68122.46%	76.1%
BINPUR	CPISAREN JOYRAM	JKPSHYAM CHARAN MURMU	9,20521.32%	55.8%
BISHNUPUR EAST	INCRAM KRISHNA BAR	CPMSUNDAR KUMAR NASKAR	8,64017.23%	66.9%
BISHNUPUR WEST	CPMPROVASH CHANDRA ROY	INCSHAIK MOQUEBUL HAQUE	5951.03%	73.1%
BOLPUR	CPIHARASANKAR BHATTACHARYA	CPMMUKHERJEE PRASANTH	3,82610.52%	48.3%
BONGAON	CPIAJIT KUMAR GANGULY	CPMRANJIT KUMAR MITRA	12,86529.40%	62.1%
BOW BAZAR	INCBIJOT SINGH NAHAR	CPMHASHIM ABDUL HALIM	11,45429.27%	49.3%
BUDGE BUDGE	CPMKHITIBHUSAN ROY BARMAN	CPIBHOWANI ROY CHOUDHUROY	13,09023.10%	59.2%
BURDWAN NORTH	INCKASHINATH TA	CPMDEBABRATA DATTA	19,21335.32%	65.4%
BURDWAN SOUTH	INCPRADIP BHATTACHARYYA	CPMCHOWDHURY BENOY KRISHNA	28,54843.49%	59.2%

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.