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 151–200 of 280

Assembly seat	Winner	Runner-up	Margin	Turnout
KASHIPUR	INCMADAN MOHAN MAHATO	CPMBASUDEB ACHARIA	4,27117.20%	34.8%
KATWA	INCSUBRATA MUKHERJE	CPMHARA MOHAN SINHA	11,35820.74%	62.9%
KAYANPUR	CPIALI ANSAR	CPMNITAI ADAK	12,47623.60%	66.9%
KESHIARI	INCBUDHAN CHANDRA TUDU	CPMKISKU JADUNATH	5,25412.46%	59.7%
KESHPUR	INCRAJANI KANTA DOLOI	CPMKUNAR MHIMANGSU	9,10118.11%	69.4%
KETUGRAM	INCPRABHA KAR MANDAL	CPMDINABANDHBU MAJHI	12,56126.43%	58.0%
KHAJURI	INCBIMAL PAIK	CPMJAGADISH CHANDRA DAS	16,25035.79%	65.1%
KHANAKUL	INCBASUDEB HAJRA	CPMMADAN MOHAN SAHA	11,07724.81%	58.1%
KHANDAGHOSH	INCMONORANJAN PRAMANIK	CPMPURNA CHANDRA MALIK	12,01225.60%	63.5%
KHARAGPUR	INCGYAN SINGH SOHANPAL	CPMJATINDRA NATH MITRA	19,63958.06%	40.8%
KHARAGPUR LOCAL	INCAJIT KUMAR BASU	CPMSEKH SIRAJ ALI	11,40626.68%	60.5%
KHARBA	INCMAHABUBUL HAQUE	CPMMAZIMUL HAQUE	6691.25%	74.2%
KHARDAH	CPISISIRKUMAR GHOSH	CPMSADHAN KUMAR CHAKRABORTY	40,64748.23%	77.9%
KHARGRAM	INCHARENDRA NATH HALDER	CPMDINABANDHU MAJHI	13,50028.09%	58.3%
KOTULPUR	INCAKSHAY KUMAR KOLAY	CPMJATADHARI MUKHOPADHYAY	17,38141.10%	59.1%
KRISHNAGAR EAST	INCKASHI KANTA MAITRA	CPMNRISINGHANANDA DUTTA	23,51552.66%	56.0%
KRISHNAGAR WEST	INCSIBDAS MUKHERJEE	CPMAMRITENDU MUKHERJEE	10,97026.80%	63.0%
KULPI	INCSANTOSH KUMAR MANDAL	SUCSASANKA SEKHAR NAIYA	15,51232.33%	62.7%
KULTALI	INCARABINDA NASKAR	SUCPRABODH PURKAIT	5,7519.56%	63.3%
KULTI	INCRAMDAS BANERJEE	CPMCHANDRA SHEKHAR MUKHAPADHYA	8,14629.03%	38.4%
KUMARGANJ	INCPROBODH KUMAR SINGHA ROY	CPMJAMINI KISHORE MOJUMDER	8,93319.15%	65.3%
KUMARGRAM	INCDEBABRATA CHATTERJEE	CPMNITAI CHANDRA DAS	13,45435.80%	54.1%
KUSHMANDI	INCJATINDRA MOHAN ROY	RSPJOGENDRA NATH RAY	16,92553.09%	47.5%
LABHPUR	CPINIRMAL KRISHNA SINHA	CPMSUNIL MAJUMDER	3281.08%	47.0%
LALGOLA	INCABDUS SATTAR	CPMMD MAJIBUR RAHMAN	11,39127.81%	60.3%
MADARIHAT	RSPA.H. BESTER WITCH	INCASWAGHOSH KULLU	3,1188.12%	57.9%
MAGRAHAT EAST	INCMANORANJAN HALDER	CPMRADHIKA RANJAN PRAMANIK	8,63114.22%	69.4%
MAGRAHAT WEST	INCSUDHENDU MUNDLE	CPMABDUS SOBHN GAZI	3,3295.84%	66.0%
MAHAMMAD BAZAR	INCNITAI PADA GHOSH	CPMDHIREN SEN	3,3699.43%	51.8%
MAHESHTOLA	INCBHUPEN BIJALI	CPMSUDHIR BHANDARI	7,83113.27%	68.5%
MAHISHADAL	INCAHINDRA MISRA	INDSHUSHIL KUMAR DHARA	23,01042.64%	65.9%
MAINAGURI	INCBIJOY KRISHNA MOHANTA	RSPJATINDRA NATH BASUNIA	11,39832.66%	46.0%
MAL	INCANTONI TOPNO	CPMJAGGA NATH ORAON	9,90923.61%	55.9%
MALDA	INCMOHAMADGOFURUR RAHAMAN	CPMMOHAMMAD ILIAS	11,13425.47%	60.7%
MANBAZAR	INCSITARAM MAHATO	CPMMAKUL MAHATO	1,4333.73%	45.8%
MANGALKOT	INCJYOTIRMOY MOJUMDAR	CPMNIKHILANANDA SAR	7,26116.33%	57.1%
MANICKTOLA	CPIILA MITRA	CPMANILA DEBI	21,61632.60%	66.6%
MANIKCHAK	INCJOKHILAL MONDAL	CPMSUDHENDU JHA	7,42417.07%	57.3%
MANTESWAR	INCTUMIN KUMAR SAMANTA	CPMKASHINATH HAZRA CHOUDHURY	48,60982.32%	75.1%
MATHABHANGA	INCBIRENDRA NATH ROY	CPMDINESH CHANDRA DAKUA	9,32020.41%	58.0%
MATHURAPUR	INCBIRENDRA NATH HALDER	SUCRENU PADA HALDER	8,99815.71%	64.7%
MAYURESWAR	CPILALCHAND FULAMALI	CPMPANCHANAN LET	1,1533.88%	43.3%
MEKLIGANJ	INCMAUHUSUDAN ROY	FBLAMARENDRANATH ROY PRODHAN	7,58316.96%	57.8%
MEMARI	INCNABA KUMAR CHATERJEE	CPMKONAR BENOY KRISHNA	41,88063.23%	70.5%
MIDNAPUR	CPIBISWANATH MUKHERJEE	CPMANIMA GHOSH ROY	24,12758.03%	50.6%
MOYNA	CPIKANAI BHOWMIK	CPMPULAK BERA	13,56428.53%	57.5%
MUGBERIA	INCPRASANTA KUMAR SAHOO	CPMAMARENDRA KRISHAN GOSWAMI	10,13421.68%	67.1%
MURARAI	INCMOTAHAR HOSSAIN	SUCBAZLE AHMAD	14,25636.15%	60.4%
MURSHIDABAD	INCMOHAMMAD IDRAI ALI	CPMJARZIS HUSSAIN SARKAR	4,89611.35%	54.1%
NABADWIP	INCRADHA RAMAN SAHA	CPMDEBI PROSAD BASU	21,24142.37%	59.4%

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.