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 101–150 of 280

Assembly seat	Winner	Runner-up	Margin	Turnout
GOGHAT	INCMADAN MOHAN MEDDA	FBLARATI BISWAS	3,1938.73%	49.0%
GOPIBALLAVPUR	INCHARISH CHANDRA MAHAPATRA	CPMMAHAPATRA MONORANJAN	10,01920.36%	60.1%
GOSABA	INCPARESH BAIDYA	RSPGANESH MONDAL	4,9799.83%	67.0%
HABIBPUR	CPIRABINDRA NATH MURMU	CPMSARKAR MURMU	13,82030.88%	59.5%
HABRA	INCTARUN KANTI GHOSH	CPMANWAM MANDAL	20,23535.52%	64.5%
HANSAN	INCDHANAPATI MAL	RCITRILOCHAN MAL	4,53515.19%	44.2%
HANSKHALI	INCANANDA MOHAN BISWAS	CPMMUKUNDA BISWAS	18,26036.97%	62.5%
HARIHARPARA	SUCABU RAIHAN BISWAS	INCMAIN L ISLAM BISWAS	2,7305.76%	60.5%
HARINGHATA	CPIBHATTACHARYA SAKTI KUMAR	CPMANIGOPAL MALAKAR	7,66514.19%	62.8%
HARIPAL	WPICHITTARANJAN BASU	INCCHANDRA SEKHAR BANK	9431.99%	72.1%
HARISHCHANDRAPUR	INCGOUTAM CHAKRAVARTY	WPIM.D. ELIAS RAZI	2,0154.36%	68.1%
HAROA	INCGANGADHAR PRAMANICK	CPMJAGANNATH SARDAR	3,3048.43%	55.3%
HASNABAD	INCMOLLA TASMA TULLA	CPMKHALED BIN ASHRAF	12,45732.70%	56.1%
HINGALGANJ	CPIANIL KRISHNA MONDAL	CPMGOPAL CHANDRA GAYEN	4030.93%	60.8%
HIRAPUR	INCTRIPTIMOYAICH	CPMRAMAPADA MUKHERJEE	1,0002.55%	49.5%
HOWRAH CENTRAL	INCMRITYUNJOY BANERJEE	RCISUDHINDRA NATH KUMAR	9,45622.51%	57.9%
HOWRAH NORTH	INCSHANKAR LAL MUKHERJEE	CPMCHAITTABRATA MAZUMDAR	8,29018.33%	59.6%
HOWRAH SOUTH	INCSANTI KUMAR DAS GUPTA	CPMPRALAY TALUKDAR	8,00215.91%	60.4%
HURA	INCSHTADAL MAHATO	SUCDELA HEMBRAM	3,56712.63%	37.1%
INDAS	INCSANATAN SNATRA	CPMBADAN BORA	7,77618.55%	59.9%
INDPUR	INCGOUR CHANDRA LOHAR	BIBGOURHARI MANDAL	6,11617.96%	42.0%
ITAHAR	INCABEDIN DR. ZAINAL	CPMSANTI SARKAR	27,26756.39%	65.6%
JADHAVPUR	CPMDINESH MAJUMDER	INCBISWANATH CHAKRABARTY	9,64213.12%	62.8%
JAGATBALLAVPUR	CPMTARA PADA DEY	CPIMOHAMMAD ELIAS	1,6303.34%	65.6%
JAIPUR	INCRAMKRISHNA MAHATO	FBLMURALI SAHA BABU	11,58049.51%	31.5%
JALANGI	INCABDUL BARI BISWAS	CPMATAHAR RAHAMAN AGE	7872.31%	51.1%
JALPAIGURI	INCANUPAM SEN	CPMSUBODH SEN	15,16728.46%	57.7%
JAMALPUR	INCPURANJOY PRAMANIK	INDNARENDRA NATH SARKAR	14,89231.85%	64.0%
JAMURIA	INCAMARENDRA MONDAL	CPMDURGADAS MONDAL	4,11716.53%	42.7%
JANGIPARA	INCGANESH HATUI	CPMMANINDRA NATH JANA	1,4543.13%	62.3%
JANGIPUR	INCRAHAMAN HABIBUR	SUCACHINTYA SINGHA	2,7436.82%	48.4%
JHALDA	INCKINKAR MAHATO	FBLCHITTARANJAN MAHATO	1,4103.89%	46.6%
JHARGRAM	INCMALLA DEB BIRENDRA BIJOY	CPMSEN DAHARESHWAR	11,32522.83%	59.8%
JORA SANKO	INCDEOKINANDAN PODDAR	CPMLAL SATYANARAYAN	17,11044.08%	47.6%
JORABAGAN	INCILA ROY	CPMHARAPRASAD CHATTERJEE	29,56753.09%	61.1%
JORE BUNGALOW	IGLNANDA LAL GURUNG	INCDAWA BOMJAN	5461.54%	57.7%
JOYNAGAR	INCPROSUN GHOSH	SUCSUBODH BANERJEE	1,8353.19%	67.9%
KABITIRTHA	INCRAM PAYARE RAM	FBLKALIMUDDIN SHAMS	8801.55%	65.4%
KAILMPONG	INCGAJENDRA GURUNG	IGLPRITHIWINATH DIKSHIT	1,3845.11%	42.4%
KAKDWIP	INCBASUDEB SAUTYA	CPMHRISHIKESH MAITY	11,74518.98%	70.3%
KALCHINI	INCDENIS LAKRA	RSPJOHN ARTHER BAXLA URAON	4,09413.65%	60.8%
KALIACHAK	INCSAMSUDDIN AHAMED	INDPROMODE RANJAN BOSE	1930.35%	68.1%
KALIAGANJ	INCDEBENDRA NATH ROY	CPMNANI GOPAL ROY	14,56241.07%	53.1%
KALIGANJ	INCSHIB SANKAR BANDOPDCHAYAY	CPMMIR FAKIR MOHAMMAD	3,3207.16%	62.8%
KALIGHAT	INCRATHIN TALUKDAR	CPMASHOKE KUMAR BOSE	15,32431.28%	60.0%
KALNA	INCNUBUL ISLAM MOLIA	CPMDILIP KUMAR DUBEY	61,52496.32%	77.9%
KAMARHATI	INCPRADIP KUMAR PALIT	CPMRADHIKA RANJAN BANERJI	6,16611.90%	48.0%
KANDI	INCATISH CHANDRA SINHA	CPMDAMODARDAS CHATTOPADHYAY	19,75241.11%	58.7%
KARANDIGHI	INCHAJI SAJJAD HUSSAIN	INDSINGHA SURESH CHANDRA	1,8194.56%	46.5%
KARIMPUR	INCARABINDA MANDAL	CPMSAMARENDRA NATH SANYAL	11,53825.53%	61.5%

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.

Frequently asked

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

Who won the West Bengal assembly election, Mar 1972?

Indian National Congress won 216 of 280 seats in West Bengal, a clear majority.

What was the voter turnout in the West Bengal assembly election, Mar 1972?

Turnout was 59.11% — 1.33 cr of 2.26 cr registered electors voted.

How many assembly seats does West Bengal have?

West Bengal has 280 assembly seats.