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 51–100 of 280

Assembly seat	Winner	Runner-up	Margin	Turnout
BURTOLA	INCAJIT KUMAR PANJA	CPMLAKSHMI KANTA DEY	17,99740.03%	52.5%
CANNING	INCGONBINDACHANDRA NASKAR	CPMNIRMAL KUMAR SINHA	8,26015.42%	62.5%
CHAKDAH	INCHARI DAS MITRA	CPMBASU SUBHAS CHANDRA	8,56814.84%	63.9%
CHAMPDANI	CPIGIRIJA BHUSAN MUKHOPADHYAYA	CPMHARIPADA MUKHOPADHYAY	2,5174.96%	63.5%
CHANDERNAGORE	CPMBHABANI MUKHERJEE	INCBERI SHAW	390.07%	67.3%
CHANDITALA	INCSAFIULLA	CPMKAZI SAFIULLA	3,4178.43%	56.9%
CHANDRAKONA	CPIGHOSAL SATYA	CPMSORASHI CHOWDHURY	5,03910.20%	66.8%
CHAPRA	INCGHIASUDDIN AHMAD	CPMSAHABUDDIN MONDAL	11,28624.76%	67.1%
CHHATNA	INCKAMALAKANTA HEMRAM	SUCARUN KIRAN BARAT	4,34914.71%	35.8%
CHINSURAH	INCBHUPAJU MAJUMDAR	FBLGHOSE SAMBHU CHARAN	4,7668.63%	58.8%
CHOPRA	INCCHOWDHARY ABDUL KARIM	CPMBACHCHA MUNSHI	10,07226.90%	46.1%
CHOWRINGHEE	INCSANKAR GHOSE	CPMAMAL DUTTA	13,80341.20%	46.1%
CONTAI NORTH	CPIKAMAKHYANANDAN DAS MOHAPATR	CPMANURUP PANDA	12,54625.59%	60.3%
CONTAI SOUTH	INDDAS SUDHIR CHANDRA	NCOSATYABRATA MAITY	1670.37%	57.8%
COOCH BEHAR NORTH	INCSUNIL KAR	FBLAPARAJITA GOPPI	9,29618.77%	60.0%
COOCH BEHAR SOUTH	INCSANTOSH KUMAR ROY	CPMSIBENDRA N CHOWDHURY	12,40426.34%	62.7%
COOCH BEHAR WEST	INCRAJANI DAS	FBLAJIT KUMAR BASUNIA	16,68437.14%	50.0%
COSSIPUR	INCPRAFULLA KANTI GHOSH	CPMPARESH NATH BANERJEE	23,21543.50%	57.7%
DANTAN	NCOPRADYOT KUMAR MAHANTI	CPIDWIBEDI RABINDRANATH	4,1359.07%	60.0%
DARJEELING	IGLDEO PRAKASH RAI	INDG.S. GURUNG	5,45716.57%	50.7%
DASPUR	INCSUDHIR CHANDRA BERA	CPMPRABHAS CHANDRA PHODIKAR	10,84420.04%	63.7%
DEBRA	INCRABINDRA NATH BERA	CPMSIBARAM BASU	10,52722.59%	72.3%
DEGANGA	INCM. SHAUKAT ALI	MULAKM HASSAN UZZAMAN	3450.74%	62.1%
DHAKURIA	CPISOMNATH LAHIRI	RSPJATIN CHAKRABORTY	12,09122.73%	58.0%
DHANIAKHALI	INCKASHI NATH PATRA	CPMKASHI NATH ROY	6,20712.00%	69.6%
DHUPGURI	INCBHAWANI PAUL	SOPNISHITH NATH BHOWMIK	8,86022.43%	51.8%
DIAMOND HARBOUR	INCDAULAT ALI SHEIKH	CPMABDUL QUIYOM MOLLA	8,59613.79%	69.3%
DINHATA	INCJOGESH CHANDRA SARKAR	FBLKAMAL GUHA	9,69218.65%	60.5%
DOMJUR	INCKRISHNA PADA ROY	CPMJOYKESH MUKHERJEE	8751.43%	68.0%
DOMKAL	INCBISWAS EKRAMUL HAQUE	CPMMD ABDUL BARI	6311.37%	58.2%
DUBRAJPUR	INCSACHI NANDAN SHAW	FBLBHAKTI BHUSAN MANDAL	2,9097.85%	46.9%
DUM DUM	INCLAL BAHADUR SINGH	CPMTARUN KUMAR SENGUPTA	76,40571.63%	80.7%
DURGAPUR	INCANANDA GOPAL MUKHERJEE	CPMDILIP KUMAR MAZUMDAR	10,04211.85%	54.0%
EGRA	INCKHAN SAMSUL ALAM	SOPPRABODH CHANDRA SINHA	4270.85%	57.8%
ENGLISHBAZAR	CPIBIMAL DAS	CPMSAILENDRA SARKAR	10,83523.70%	60.8%
ENTALLY	CPIA. M. O. GHANI	CPMMD. NEZAMUDDIN	7,06814.83%	65.9%
FALAKATA	INCJAGADANANDA ROY	SOPPUSHPAJIT BARMAN	11,13128.34%	51.8%
FALTA	INCMOHINI MOHAN PARUI	CPMJYOTISH ROY	4,5308.31%	64.8%
FARAKKA	CPMJERAT ALI	INCMD WAZED ALI	1,6753.55%	54.9%
FARIDPUR	INCAJIT KUMAR BANDYOPADHYAY	CPMTARUN KUMAR CHATTERJEE	2,4345.86%	54.0%
GAIGHATA	INCCHADIPADA MITRA	CPMKESHAB LAL BISWAS	14,88632.68%	66.5%
GAJOL	INCBENJAMIN HEMBROM	CPMSUPHAL MURMU	11,51426.52%	58.8%
GALSI	CPIROY ASWINI	CPMANIL ROY	4,34110.33%	55.6%
GANGAJALGHATI	INCSHAKTI PADA MAJI	CPMKALI PADA BAURI	6,19718.06%	41.7%
GANGARAMPUR	INCMOSLEHUDDIN AHMED	CPMAHINDRA SARKAR	18,28942.22%	58.5%
GARDEN REACH	CPMCHHEDILAL SINGH	INCS. M. ABDULLAH	1,3802.72%	56.4%
GARHBETA EAST	CPIKRISHNA PRASAD DULEY	CPMBHUTU DOLOI	8,37819.76%	53.7%
GARHBETA WEST	CPISAROJ ROY	CPMMANOHAR MAHATA	8,42319.40%	55.1%
GHATAL	INCDOLUI HARISADHAN	CPMNANDA RANI DAL	2,2934.84%	66.7%
GOALPOKHAR	INCSHEIKH SHARAFAT HUSSAIN	MULNIZAMUDDIN	5,04217.60%	38.6%

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.