1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election explained

Legislative Assembly elections were held in the Indian state of West Bengal on March 11, 1972.^[1]

Background

The election was the 4th assembly election in West Bengal within six years. In the previous assembly election held last year, Ajoy Mukherjee of Bangla Congress became the chief minister with support of the INC(R) & the United Left Democratic Front (an alliance of CPI, AIFB, SSP rebels, PSP, BPI - Barada Mukutmoni faction, RCPI - Anadi Das faction & AIGL). President's Rule had been introduced on 29 June 1971 due to fallout of the Congress(R) (with which the Bangla Congress had merged) with the ULDF.^[2]

Contenders

There were two main fronts in the election; the alliance between the Congress(R) and CPI and the alliance led by CPI(M).^[3] The Congress(R)-CPI alliance was known as the Progressive Democratic Alliance. The PDA had a seven-point programme.^[4] At the time of the election Indira Gandhi's popularity peaked, with the victory in the Bangladesh Liberation War and electoral promises of land reform.^[3] The CPI had also gained significant prestige in West Bengal due to the Soviet support to the Bangladeshi cause in the war.^[5]

The CPI(M)-led alliance included RSP, SUCI(C), RCPI, MFB, WPI, the Biplobi Bangla Congress and some independents.^[3] Just before the vote there was a seat-sharing arrangement between the CPI(M)-led alliance and the AIFB.^[3] A minor third front, the West Bengal Democratic Alliance, was led by the Congress (O) and included Sushil Kumar Dhara's Bangla Congress faction, the SSP rebels and the Indian Awami League.^[3]

Results

The Congress(R)-CPI alliance won an overwhelming majority in the assembly and formed a new state government, led by Siddhartha Shankar Ray.^[6] Several Indian Youth Congress leaders were found among the newly elected legislators.^[4] 14 CPI(M) candidates were declared elected, but they refused to participate in the Legislative Assembly during the period of 1972-1977 as they accused that the elections had been rigged.^[4]

Results by constituency

No.	Constituency	Res.	CPI(M) and allies (Missing some independent candidates)					Congress (R)-CPI alliance					Other (Listing the most-voted candidate outside the CPI(M)- and Cong (R)-led alliances)
			Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Rank	Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Rank	Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Rank
1			Amarendranath Roy Prodhan		18233	40.77%		Mauhusudan Roy		25816	57.72%		Sudhangshu Kumar Sarkar		675	1.51%
2			Dinesh Chandra Dakua		18173	39.80%		Birendra Nath Roy		27493	60.20%
3			Ajit Kumar Basunia		14120	31.43%		Rajani Das		30804	68.57%
4			Dipak Sen Gupta		15345	34.93%		M O Fazle Haque		28592	65.07%
5			Kamal Guha		20712	39.85%		Jogesh Chandra Sarkar		30404	58.50%		Ram Chandra Saha		855	1.65%
6			Aparajita Goppi		19846	40.07%		Sunil Kar		29142	58.84%		Jaharuddin Mia		541	1.09%
7			Sibendra N Chowdhury		17196	36.52%		Santosh Kumar Roy		29600	62.86%		Rai Mohan Roy		293	0.62%
8			Manindra Nath Barman		16697	32.70%		Isore Sisit Kumar		34364	67.30%
9			Nitai Chandra Das		12061	32.10%		Debabrata Chatterjee		25515	67.90%
10			John Arther Baxla Uraon		11353	37.84%		Denis Lakra		15447	51.48%		Philip Minj		3203	10.68%
11					20928	42.49%		Naryan Bhattacharya		27386	55.61%		Kalikrishna Bhattacharya		935	1.90%
12								Jagadananda Roy		25203	64.17%		Pushpajit Barman		14072	35.83%
13					16785	43.70%		Aswaghosh Kullu		13667	35.58%		Khudiram Pahan		7961	20.72%
14								Bhawani Paul		22670	57.39%		Nishith Nath Bhowmik		13810	34.96%
15			Punai Oraon		14463	38.58%		Prem Oraon		21429	57.16%		Mangroo Bhagat		1600	4.27%
16			Jatindra Nath Basunia		8318	23.84%		Bijoy Krishna Mohanta		19716	56.50%		Panchanan Mallick		6862	19.66%
17			Jagga Nath Oraon		16030	38.19%		Antoni Topno		25939	61.81%
18			Subodh Sen		19064	35.77%				34231	64.23%
19			Dhirendra Nath Roy		11503	31.19%		Mrigendra Narayan Roy		21853	59.26%		Heramba Deb Raikat		3521	9.55%
20			Ramashnaker Prasad		3325	12.27%				10190	37.60%		Prithiwinath Dikshit		8806	32.49%
21			G.S. Gurung	Ind.[7]	9476	28.77%		P.P. Rai		7331	22.26%				14933	45.34%
22			Ananda Prasad Pathak		11031	31.20%		Dawa Bomjan		11517	32.58%		Nanda Lal Gurung		12063	34.12%
23			Biren Bose		12226	29.91%		Arun Kumar Moitra		26728	65.39%		Benoy Roy		1305	3.19%
24			Patras		16912	37.74%		Iswar Chandra Tirkey		27894	62.26%
25			Bachcha Munshi		13540	36.16%		Chowdhary Abdul Karim		23612	63.05%		Ismail		296	0.79%
26								Sheikh Sharafat Hussain		15527	54.20%		Nizamuddin		10485	36.60%
27			Singha Suresh Chandra	Ind	17681	44.34%		Haji Sajjad Hussain		19500	48.90%		Choudhury Golam Rasun		1435	3.60%
28			Manash Roy		13610	31.16%		Dutta Ramendranath		28727	65.77%		Brajendra Chandra Roy		855	1.96%
29			Nani Gopal Roy		9681	27.30%		Debendra Nath Roy		24243	68.37%		Kailas Sarkar		1050	2.96%
30			Santi Sarkar		10543	21.80%		Abedin Dr. Zainal		37810	78.20%
31			Jogendra Nath Ray		7478	23.46%		Jatindra Mohan Roy		24403	76.54%
32			Ahindra Sarkar		12265	28.31%		Moslehuddin Ahmed		30554	70.53%		Mardi Karlus Mandal		500	1.15%
33			Jamini Kishore Mojumder		18857	40.42%		Probodh Kumar Singha Roy		27790	59.58%
34			Basu Mukul		23526	44.04%		Bireswar Roy		28894	54.09%		Singh Nakul		395	0.74%
35			Nathanial Murmu		20035	41.24%		Patrash Hembrem		28166	57.97%		Kisku Gomai		384	0.79%
36					13207	29.51%		Rabindra Nath Murmu		27027	60.40%		Boila Murmu		4514	10.09%
37			Suphal Murmu		14561	33.54%		Benjamin Hembrom		26075	60.05%		Samu Tudu		2783	6.41%
38			Mazimul Haque		24843	46.50%		Mahabubul Haque		25512	47.75%		Birendra Kumar Maitra		3074	5.75%
39					21418	46.35%		Goutam Chakravarty		23433	50.71%		Peskar Ali		1361	2.95%
40			Mohammad Ali		18668	45.33%		Nirenchandra Sinha		21755	52.83%		Ali Nabed		755	1.83%
41			Mohammad Ilias		16286	37.26%		Mohamadgofurur Rahaman		27420	62.74%
42			Sailendra Sarkar		14281	31.24%		Bimal Das		25116	54.94%		Hari Prasanna Misra		6319	13.82%
43			Sudhendu Jha		18036	41.47%		Jokhilal Mondal		25460	58.53%
44										32911	70.09%		Mannak Sk		9418	20.06%
45			Dhirendra Nath Saha		7459	13.53%		Samsuddin Ahamed		23933	43.41%		Promode Ranjan Bose		23740	43.06%
46			Jerat Ali		20787	44.10%		Md Wazed Ali		19112	40.55%		Sohidul Alam		7234	15.35%
47			Shish Mohammad		27085	49.21%				25565	46.45%		Sarker Benoy Bhusan		2388	4.34%
48			Achintya Singha		14292	35.52%				17035	42.33%		Chattopadhyay Muktipada		4816	11.97%
49			Joy Chand Das		11566	36.83%		Nrisinha Kumar Mandal		17824	56.75%		Guru Pada Das		2018	6.43%
50			Md Majibur Rahman		13018	31.78%				24409	59.60%		Jagannath Pandey		2715	6.63%
51								Mohammad Dedar Baksh		22016	63.07%		Adhicary Sailendra Nath		5312	15.22%
52			Birendra Narayan Roy	Ind	19660	44.87%		Adya Chanran Dutta		22154	50.57%		Delowar Hossain Saikh		806	1.84%
53			Jarzis Hussain Sarkar		16975	39.36%		Mohammad Idrai Ali		21871	50.71%		Nawab Jany Meerza		2808	6.51%
54			Atahar Rahaman Age		13676	40.14%		Abdul Bari Biswas		14463	42.45%		Prafulla Kumar Sarkar		2661	7.81%
55			Md Abdul Bari		21668	47.21%		Biswas Ekramul Haque		22299	48.58%		Mandal Rafiluddin		1932	4.21%
56			Jayanta Kumar Biswas		14993	32.64%		Abdul Majid Biswas		13032	28.37%				15792	34.38%
57					21315	44.99%		Main L Islam Biswas		18585	39.22%		Aftabuddin Ahmad		5525	11.66%
58			Debabrata Bandopadhyay		14661	31.80%		Sankar Das Paul		31448	68.20%
59			Timir Baran Bhaduri		18084	40.43%		Abdul Latif		16581	37.07%		Khan Sidhique Hosain		9028	20.18%
60			Damodardas Chattopadhyay		14148	29.45%				33900	70.55%
61			Dinabandhu Majhi		17280	35.96%		Harendra Nath Halder		30780	64.04%
62			Amalendra Lal Roy		16284	40.93%		Ghosh Moulik Sunil Mohan		23497	59.07%
63			Kh Md Nure Ahasan		17824	42.75%		Kumar Dipti Sen Gupta		23320	55.93%		Sk Abu Talib		398	0.95%
64			Samarendra Nath Sanyal		16019	35.45%		Arabinda Mandal		27557	60.98%		Kazi Saidul Islam Biswas		1611	3.57%
65			Madhabendu Mohanta		18835	39.96%		Karti Chandra Biswas		27455	58.25%		Kazi Md Mowla Boksh		844	1.79%
66			Mir Fakir Mohammad		15757	34.00%		Shib Sankar Bandopdchayay		19077	41.16%		Rame Dra Nath Mukherjee		8536	18.42%
67			Binoy Bhusan Majumder		13808	36.58%		Nil Kamal Sarker		20753	54.99%		Govindo Chandra Mondal		2821	7.47%
68			Sahabuddin Mondal		16228	35.61%				27514	60.37%		Kabir Humayun Mondal		1835	4.03%
69			Debi Prosad Basu		13504	26.93%		Radha Raman Saha		34745	69.30%		Saghcndra Mohon Nandy		1888	3.77%
70			Amritendu Mukherjee		14982	36.60%		Sibdas Mukherjee		25952	63.40%
71			Nrisinghananda Dutta		10332	23.14%		Kashi Kanta Maitra		33847	75.80%		Subodh Ranjan Chakravarty		472	1.06%
72			Mukunda Biswas		15569	31.52%				33829	68.48%
73					18626	40.58%		Asamanja De		27272	59.42%
74			Kundu Gourchandra		24715	39.48%				37892	60.52%
75			Naresh Chandra Biswas		14795	32.39%		Netaipada Sarkar		30104	65.91%		Santosh Kumar Mondal		776	1.70%
76			Basu Subhas Chandra		24576	42.58%		Hari Das Mitra		33144	57.42%
77			Anigopal Malakar		22663	41.96%		Bhattacharya Sakti Kumar		30328	56.16%		Sarker Arendra Nath		1016	1.88%
78			Kanti Chandra Biswas		14347	36.68%							Apurba Lal Mazumder		24769	63.32%
79			Ranjit Kumar Mitra		15445	35.30%		Ajit Kumar Ganguly		28310	64.70%
80			Keshab Lal Biswas		15331	33.66%		Chadipada Mitra		30217	66.34%
81			Nani Kar		19737	35.23%		Sadhan Kumar Sen		11936	21.30%		Keshab Chandra Battacharjee		23869	42.60%
82			Saral Deb		22835	40.30%		Kanti Rangan Chatterjee		32988	58.22%		Sunil Sekhar Mandal		842	1.49%
83			Rabindra Nath Mandal		26037	44.65%		Khasendra Nath Mandal		32282	55.35%
84								M. Shaukat Ali		19314	41.34%		Akm Hassan Uzzaman		18969	40.60%
85			Anwam Mandal		17378	30.50%				37613	66.02%		Malulana Md Abdul Khayer		1182	2.07%
86			Anisur Rahaman		13232	27.97%		Chandranath Misra		33669	71.17%		Panchanan Mondal		405	0.86%
87			Mir Abdul Sayed		17399	35.71%		Quazi Abdul Gaffar		31320	64.29%
88			Narayan Mukherjee		17610	37.07%		Lalit Kumar Ghosh		29897	62.93%
89			Khaled Bin Ashraf		12817	33.65%		Molla Tasma Tulla		25274	66.35%
90			Gopal Chandra Gayen		15033	34.78%		Anil Krishna Mondal		15436	35.71%		Aditya Mondal		11614	26.87%
91			Ganesh Mondal		21888	43.22%		Paresh Baidya		26867	53.05%		Tarang Mondal		1308	2.58%
92			Sarat Sarder		21905	46.94%		Debendra Nath Sinha		24764	53.06%
93			Jagannath Sardar		17935	45.78%		Gangadhar Pramanick		21239	54.22%
94			Ashoke Chaudhuri		23650	44.72%		Panchanan Sinha		26873	50.82%		Jnanendra Prasad Barman		2359	4.46%
95			Nirmal Kumar Sinha		22416	41.83%				30676	57.25%		Bibhuti Bhushan Sardar		490	0.91%
96					27217	45.22%		Arabinda Naskar		32968	54.78%
97					27840	48.40%		Prosun Ghosh		29675	51.60%
98			Bimal Mistri		22878	41.26%		Lalit Gayen		30579	55.15%		Promatha Sarader		1629	2.94%
99			Gangadhar Naskar		23328	42.66%				30700	56.14%		Abinas Haldar		463	0.85%
100					13459	33.60%		Md Nuruzzaman		11593	28.94%		Molla Mohammed Yunus		10951	27.34%
101			Dinesh Majumder		40939	55.71%		Biswanath Chakrabarty		31297	42.59%		Satya Sarkar		692	0.94%
102			Nirajan Mukherjee		18733	39.30%		Indrajit Majumder		28939	60.70%
103			Rabi Mukherjee		30024	48.45%		Biswanath Chakrabarty		31939	51.55%
104			Chhedilal Singh		25625	50.43%		S. M. Abdullah		24245	47.71%		Ram Saran		945	1.86%
105			Sudhir Bhandari		25581	43.36%		Bhupen Bijali		33412	56.64%
106			Khitibhusan Roy Barman		34873	61.55%		Bhowani Roy Choudhuroy		21783	38.45%
107			Provash Chandra Roy		28540	49.27%		Shaik Moquebul Haque		27945	48.24%		Jugal Charan Santra		1440	2.49%
108			Sundar Kumar Naskar		20750	41.38%		Ram Krishna Bar		29390	58.62%
109			Jyotish Roy		24747	45.40%		Mohini Mohan Parui		29277	53.71%		Nasim Molla		486	0.89%
110			Abdul Quiyom Molla		26861	43.10%		Daulat Ali Sheikh		35457	56.90%
111			Radhika Ranjan Pramanik		25902	42.66%				34533	56.88%		Narendra Nath Mandal		281	0.46%
112			Abdus Sobhn Gazi		26146	45.85%		Sudhendu Mundle		29475	51.69%		Paresh Kayal		1401	2.46%
113			Sasanka Sekhar Naiya		15555	32.42%		Santosh Kumar Mandal		31067	64.76%		Ramesh Haldar		1218	2.54%
114			Renu Pada Halder		23564	41.15%		Birendra Nath Halder		32562	56.86%		Makhan Chandra Baidya		1041	1.82%
115			Rabin Mondal		29657	48.60%		Satya Ranjan Bapuly		30213	49.51%		Phani Bhushan Giri		1154	1.89%
116			Hrishikesh Maity		25067	40.51%		Basudeb Sautya		36812	59.49%
117			Prabhonjan Kumar Mandal		24942	42.69%		Jalin Maity		12012	20.56%		Trilokes Misra		19295	33.03%
118			J. C. Das S/O Matilal		25336	38.77%		J. C. Das S/O Akul		40017	61.23%
119			Gopal Basu		33466	46.89%		Tarapoda Mukhapadya		37511	52.55%		Bholanath Bhar		401	0.56%
120			Sita Ram Gupta		35680	41.83%		Satyanarayan Singha		49187	57.66%		Lal Bahadur Singha		440	0.52%
121			Jamini Bhuson Saha		22599	31.61%		Suvendu Roy		48112	67.30%		Santi Ranjan Pathak		480	0.67%
122					23158	31.37%		Krishnakumar Shukla		50656	68.63%
123			Sadhan Kumar Chakraborty		21813	25.88%		Sisirkumar Ghosh		62460	74.12%
124			G. K. Bhattacharjee		27540	26.79%		Tapan Chatterjee		74765	72.74%		S. K. Bhakta Bhakta		477	0.46%
125			Radhika Ranjan Banerji		22524	43.47%		Pradip Kumar Palit		28690	55.37%		Prasad Das Ray		601	1.16%
126					30158	30.37%		Shiba Pada Bhattacharjee		69145	69.63%
127			Tarun Kumar Sengupta		15023	14.08%		Lal Bahadur Singh		91428	85.71%		Sudhangsu Debsarma		216	0.20%
128			Paresh Nath Banerjee		15075	28.25%		Prafulla Kanti Ghosh		38290	71.75%
129			Rathindra Krishna Deb		14667	31.89%		Baridbaran Das		30463	66.24%		Ramendra Kumar Bisnu		688	1.50%
130			Haraprasad Chatterjee		13064	23.46%		Ila Roy		42631	76.54%
131			Lal Satyanarayan		10777	27.76%		Deokinandan Poddar		27887	71.84%		Jagmohan Prasad		153	0.39%
132			Murlidhar Santhalia		7682	21.33%		Ramkrishna Saraogi		27606	76.66%		Om Prakash		522	1.45%
133			Hashim Abdul Halim		13838	35.36%				25292	64.64%
134			Amal Dutta		9851	29.40%		Sankar Ghose		23654	70.60%
135					27685	48.78%		Ram Payare Ram		28565	50.33%		Binapani Dubey		344	0.61%
136			P. Jha		13226	29.08%		Kanailalsarkar		31277	68.76%		Durga Dutt Agarwal		985	2.17%
137			Ashoke Kumar Bose		16511	33.70%		Rathin Talukdar		31835	64.97%		Bejoy Bhusan Chatterrjee		507	1.03%
138			Sachin Sen		11422	26.58%		Lakshmi Kanta Bose		31548	73.42%
139			Prasanta Kumar Sur		28372	36.62%				49096	63.38%
140			Jatin Chakraborty		20550	38.63%				32641	61.37%
141					18181	35.49%		Subrata Mukhopadhaya		32845	64.12%		Ananta Lal Singh		196	0.38%
142			Sumanta Hira		10999	22.78%		Ardhendu Sekhar Naskar		37284	77.22%
143					20303	42.59%				27371	57.41%
144			Abul Hasan		17355	45.41%		Abdur Rauf Ansari		20717	54.20%		Stanley James		150	0.39%
145			Shyam Sundar Gupta		16098	30.30%		Somendra Nath Mitra		37023	69.70%
146			Samar Kumar Rudra		16799	37.91%		Md. Shamsuzzoha		27515	62.09%
147			Krishnapada Ghosh		14839	21.60%		Ananta Kumar Bharati		53875	78.40%
148			Anila Debi		21622	32.61%		Ila Mitra		43238	65.21%		Premananda Bose		948	1.43%
149			Lakshmi Kanta Dey		12781	28.43%				30778	68.46%		Asim Banerjee		1397	3.11%
150			Lakshmi Charansen		24660	40.17%		Ganapati Sur		36734	59.83%
151			Patit Pabon Pathak		22522	43.84%		Bhabani Sankar Mukerjee		28857	56.16%
152			Chaittabrata Mazumdar		18463	40.83%		Shankar Lal Mukherjee		26753	59.17%
153					15870	37.77%		Mrityunjoy Banerjee		25326	60.28%		Bipul Sarkar		817	1.94%
154			Pralay Talukdar		20655	41.07%		Santi Kumar Das Gupta		28657	56.98%		Bhola Shaw		979	1.95%
155			Kanai Lal Bhattacharya		24941	43.87%		Mrigendra Mukherjee		31109	54.71%		Sailen Parbat		808	1.42%
156			Joykesh Mukherjee		29675	48.49%		Krishna Pada Roy		30550	49.92%		Debendra Nath Mondal		979	1.60%
157			Tara Pada Dey		24063	49.23%		Mohammad Elias		22433	45.90%		Biswaratan Gangully		2378	4.87%
158			Asoke Kumar Ghosh		21944	40.89%		Sk. Anwar Ali		29900	55.72%		Kazi Hazi Mahiuddin		850	1.58%
159			Haran Hazra		26712	53.11%		Arabinda Naskar		23585	46.89%
160			Raj Kumar Mandal		31885	53.88%		Gobinda Sing		857	1.45%		Santosh Kr. Bhowmick		24386	41.21%
161			Bata Krisn Das		23034	45.89%		Durga Sankar Roy		1197	2.38%		Rabindra Ghose		23316	46.45%
162			Sasabindu Bera		29601	48.92%		Sisir Kumar Sen		30294	50.06%		Krishna Pada Jana		615	1.02%
163			Nirupama Chatterjee		24802	47.20%		Susanta Bhattacharjee		26030	49.54%		Prakas Chandra Mandal		1420	2.70%
164			Nitai Adak		19662	37.19%				32138	60.79%		Manik Lal Mitra		1066	2.02%
165			Barindra Koley		24710	47.12%		Afiabuddin Mondal		26322	50.19%		Nirmal Kumar Roy		1411	2.69%
166			Panna Lal Maji		23955	43.66%		Saroj Karar		30915	56.34%
167			Manindra Nath Jana		22485	48.43%		Ganesh Hatui		23939	51.57%
168			Kazi Safiulla		18561	45.79%		Safiulla		21978	54.21%
169			Santasri Chattopadhyay		27053	50.01%		Gobida Chatterjee		27045	49.99%
170			Kamal Krishna Bhattacharya		22984	37.51%		Gopal Das Nag		37152	60.62%		Sankari Prosad Mukhopadhyaa		1146	1.87%
171			Haripada Mukhopadhyay		23509	46.31%		Girija Bhusan Mukhopadhyaya		26026	51.27%		Bisaldeo Singh		973	1.92%
172			Bhabani Mukherjee		28366	49.37%		Beri Shaw		28327	49.30%		Prokash Chandra Das		764	1.33%
173			Gopal Bandopadhya		21155	39.16%				30213	55.93%		Probhakar Pal		2655	4.91%
174			Chittaranjan Basu		24074	50.85%		Chandra Sekhar Bank		23131	48.86%		Krishikesh Dey		137	0.29%
175			Ghose Sambhu Charan		24869	45.04%		Bhupaju Majumdar		29635	53.67%		Sanat Majumdar		713	1.29%
176			Brojo Gopal Negoy		23545	43.42%		Bhawant Pd. Sinha Roy		29787	54.94%		Kazi Mohammad Ali		889	1.64%
177			Abinash Pramanik		21880	45.08%		Biren Sarkar		26660	54.92%
178			Deb Narayan Chakraborty		20329	41.04%		Sailendra Chaootpadhyay		29211	58.96%
179			Kashi Nath Roy		22750	44.00%		Kashi Nath Patra		28957	56.00%
180				Ind	23758	45.70%		Balai Lal Sheth		28224	54.30%
181			Mrinal Kanti Majumder	Ind	15594	30.98%		Mahadeb Mukhopadhya		32324	64.21%		Monoranjan Maity		2421	4.81%
182			Madan Mohan Saha		16023	35.88%		Basudeb Hajra		27100	60.69%		Panchanan Digpati		1528	3.42%
183			Sastiram Chattopadhyay		9559	18.24%		Santi Mohan Roy		13953	26.63%				28885	55.13%
184			Arati Biswas		15515	42.41%		Madan Mohan Medda		18708	51.14%		Nanuram Roy		1777	4.86%
185			Sorashi Chowdhury		21343	43.19%		Ghosal Satya		26382	53.38%		Madhusudan Chakraborty		887	1.79%
186			Nanda Rani Dal		22554	47.58%		Dolui Harisadhan		24847	52.42%
187			Prabhas Chandra Phodikar		21021	38.85%		Sudhir Chandra Bera		31865	58.89%		Bhukta Rampada		1223	2.26%
188			Mono Anjan Roy		9209	21.63%				28090	65.99%		Harekrishna Pattanayak		5268	12.38%
189			Amar Prasad Chakravarty		11313	27.82%				29356	72.18%
190			Pulak Bera		14929	31.41%		Kanai Bhowmik		28493	59.94%		Ananga Mohan Das		4115	8.66%
191			Deva Prasad Bhowmik		11040	24.26%				33924	74.54%		Mangorinda Manna		547	1.20%
192			Dinabahdhu Mandal		9158	16.97%		Ahindra Misra		33906	62.84%				10896	20.19%
193			Lakshman Chandra Seth		13182	25.82%		Rabindra Nath Karan		25641	50.22%		Shibanath Das		12232	23.96%
194			Rabindra Nath Majti		7468	12.54%		Bhupal Chandra Panda		27610	46.35%		Abha Maiti		23461	39.38%
195			Swades Kumar Manna		13439	24.87%		Sardindu Samanta		30974	57.32%		Bankim Behari Maity		9626	17.81%
196			Pradhan Prasanta Kumar		16274	32.70%		Adhayapak Amales Jana		21815	43.83%		Haripada Jana		9922	19.93%
197			Jagadish Chandra Das		11753	25.88%		Bimal Paik		28003	61.67%		Abanti Kumar Das		3759	8.28%
198			Anurup Panda		12376	25.24%		Kamakhyanandan Das Mohapatr		24922	50.83%		Ras Behari Pal		7275	14.84%
199			Kar Ram Sankar		5723	12.56%				20001	43.90%		Satyabrata Maity		19834	43.54%
200			Karan Rohini		8821	19.81%		Hemanta Dutta		24763	55.62%		Radhagobinda Bishal		5059	11.36%
201			Nanigopal Pal		7233	14.45%		Khan Samsul Alam		21624	43.20%		Prabodh Chandra Sinha		21197	42.35%
202			Amarendra Krishan Goswami		13936	29.81%		Prasanta Kumar Sahoo		24070	51.48%		Janmenjoy Ojha		8256	17.66%
203			Jagdish Das		13087	27.89%				33844	72.11%
204			Gouranga Samanta	Ind	20335	40.46%				29460	58.62%		Manik Murmu		464	0.92%
205			Sibaram Basu		17394	37.32%		Rabindra Nath Bera		27921	59.91%		Champa Besra		854	1.83%
206			Kunar Mhimangsu		19954	39.70%		Rajani Kanta Doloi		29055	57.81%		Gour Hari Pardiya		1251	2.49%
207			Bhutu Doloi		14891	35.13%		Krishna Prasad Duley		23269	54.89%		Kali Kinkar Chalak		3176	7.49%
208			Manohar Mahata		14650	33.74%		Saroj Roy		23073	53.15%		Tudu Prankrishna		4182	9.63%
209			Sundar Hazra		16199	36.67%				21281	48.18%		Birendra Nath Hembram		6690	15.15%
210			Anima Ghosh Roy		7882	18.96%		Biswanath Mukherjee		32009	76.99%		Gurudas Mandi		1076	2.59%
211			Jatindra Nath Mitra		7093	20.97%				26732	79.03%
212			Sekh Siraj Ali		15075	35.27%		Ajit Kumar Basu		26481	61.95%		Purna Tudu		1188	2.78%
213			Ajit Dasmahapatra		11014	23.58%		Braja Kishore Maiti		33591	71.91%		Laha Mihir Kumar		2110	4.52%
214			Mukherjee Durgadas		6711	14.72%		Dwibedi Rabindranath		17371	38.10%				21506	47.17%
215			Kisku Jadunath		17443	41.37%		Budhan Chandra Tudu		22697	53.83%		Anil Hembram		1447	3.43%
216								Dasarathi Saren		18933	49.12%		Birendra Nath Murmu		12525	32.50%
217			Mahapatra Monoranjan		18334	37.25%		Harish Chandra Mahapatra		28353	57.61%		Hembram Sanatan		1877	3.81%
218			Sen Dahareshwar		14626	29.48%		Malla Deb Birendra Bijoy		25951	52.31%		Mahata Mrinalini		7310	14.73%
219								Saren Joyram		24701	57.20%		Shyam Charan Murmu		15496	35.88%
220			Ramesh Majhi		9362	34.32%		Sital Chandra Hembram		14609	53.55%		Jagadish Majhi		1838	6.74%
221			Makul Mahato		18487	48.13%		Sitaram Mahato		19920	51.87%
222			Bikram Tudu		13813	45.82%		Rup Singh Majhi		16330	54.18%
223			Daman Chandra Kuiri		13315	49.60%		Netai Deshmukh		13532	50.40%
224			Chittaranjan Mahato		17421	48.06%		Kinkar Mahato		18831	51.94%
225			Murali Saha Babu		4060	17.36%		Ramkrishna Mahato		15640	66.87%		Padma Lochan Mahato		3690	15.78%
226			Mahadeb Mukherjee		11978	34.15%		Sanat Kumar Mukherjee		23098	65.85%
227			Sailen Bauri		10723	42.42%		Sarat Das		13249	52.41%		Chandi Charan Das		988	3.91%
228			Hari Ada Bauri		13485	49.34%				13846	50.66%
229					9949	40.07%				14220	57.28%		Rajaram Mahato		658	2.65%
230			Dela Hembram		11560	40.94%		Shtadal Mahato		15127	53.58%		Shkti Pada Mukherjee		1546	5.48%
231			Panda Mohini Mohan		20660	40.94%		Phani Bhusan Singha Babu		27644	54.78%		Lakshmi Kanta Saren		2160	4.28%
232								Manik Lal Besra		24919	62.20%		Sareng Babulal		12140	30.30%
233			SUChand Soren		17678	45.84%		Amala Saren		19081	49.47%		Hansda Fagal		1808	4.69%
234			Gourhari Mandal		13407	39.38%		Gour Chandra Lohar		19523	57.34%		Ashok Kumar Mandal		1115	3.28%
235			Arun Kiran Barat		10547	35.67%		Kamalakanta Hemram		14896	50.38%		Dey Nirmalendu		2664	9.01%
236			Kali Pada Bauri		14056	40.97%		Shakti Pada Maji		20253	59.03%
237			Aswani Kumar Rai		21130	43.72%		Sudhangshu Sekhar Tewary		27196	56.28%
238			Sumitra Chatterjee		16315	35.42%		Kashinath Misra		28082	60.96%		Arup Mukhopadhyaya		1053	2.29%
239			Dutta Manik		14333	38.39%		Sambhu Narayan Goswami		19679	52.71%		Sachindra Kumar Banerjee		1874	5.02%
240			Karunamey Goswami		12354	35.30%		Bhabataran Chakravarty		20455	58.45%		Tushar Kanti Bhattacharya		1437	4.11%
241			Jatadhari Mukhopadhyay		11673	27.60%		Akshay Kumar Kolay		29054	68.70%		Chowdhury Bankim Chnadra		1564	3.70%
242			Badan Bora		16380	39.08%		Sanatan Snatra		24156	57.63%		Rupkumar Bagdi		1382	3.30%
243			Sukhendu Khan		15317	37.44%		Guru Pada Khan		24403	59.64%		Madan Lohar		1194	2.92%
244			Ramapada Mukherjee		18068	46.07%		Triptimoyaich		19068	48.62%		Tarak Nath Chakrabarty		2081	5.31%
245			Chandra Shekhar Mukhapadhya		8541	30.44%		Ramdas Banerjee		16687	59.47%		Sohan Prasad Varma		2832	10.09%
246			Sunil Basu Roy		11150	27.04%		Sukumar Bandyopadhyay		29214	70.85%		Nalinaksha Roy		867	2.10%
247			Bejoy Pal		15940	38.95%		Niranjan Dihidar		24021	58.70%		Mihir Kumar Mukherjee		488	1.19%
248					21840	60.77%		Rabindra Nath Mukherjee		13598	37.84%		Sibnarayan Burman		498	1.39%
249			Durgadas Mondal		10391	41.73%		Amarendra Mondal		14508	58.27%
250			Bagdi Lakhan		13490	38.74%		Gopal Mondal		21329	61.26%
251			Dilip Kumar Mazumdar		37348	44.07%				47390	55.93%
252			Tarun Kumar Chatterjee		18840	45.36%		Ajit Kumar Bandyopadhyay		21274	51.22%		Niroda Prosad Mukherjee		1103	2.66%
253			Sridhar Malik		24021	50.34%		Bans Dhar Saha		23692	49.66%
254			Anath Bandhu Ghose		11974	27.34%		Bholanath Sen		31822	72.66%
255			Anil Roy		18145	43.18%		Roy Aswini		22486	53.51%		Khan Abdul Kader		1389	3.31%
256			Debabrata Datta		17595	32.34%		Kashinath Ta		36808	67.66%
257			Chowdhury Benoy Krishna		18544	28.25%		Pradip Bhattacharyya		47092	71.75%
258			Purna Chandra Malik		17451	37.20%		Monoranjan Pramanik		29463	62.80%
259			Gokulananda Roy		22671	43.62%		Sukumar Chattopadhay		29297	56.38%
260			Narendra Nath Sarkar	Ind	15935	34.08%		Puranjoy Pramanik		30827	65.92%
261					11239	16.97%				53119	80.20%		Iotu Murmu		1876	2.83%
262			Dilip Kumar Dubey		952	1.49%		Nubul Islam Molia		62476	97.81%		Soren Madhu		444	0.70%
263					2641	4.06%		Paresh Chandra Goswami		61617	94.80%		Mandi Sankar		738	1.14%
264			Kashinath Hazra Choudhury		5159	8.74%		Tumin Kumar Samanta		53768	91.05%		Bhakta Chandra Roy		125	0.21%
265			Molia Humayun Kabir		14746	31.22%		Nurunnesa Sattar		32486	68.78%
266			Hara Mohan Sinha		21703	39.63%		Subrata Mukherje		33061	60.37%
267					18118	40.75%		Jyotirmoy Mojumdar		25379	57.08%		Madan Mohan Choudhury		962	2.16%
268			Dinabandhbu Majhi		17483	36.79%		Prabha Kar Mandal		30044	63.21%
269			Banamali Das		17743	41.49%		Saha Dulal		25018	58.51%
270			Mukherjee Prasanth		13906	38.23%		Harasankar Bhattacharya		17732	48.74%		Ashoke Krishna Dutt		3606	9.91%
271			Sunil Majumder		14976	49.46%		Nirmal Krishna Sinha		15304	50.54%
272					17066	46.07%		Sachi Nandan Shaw		19975	53.93%
273			Gopa Bauri		18269	47.25%		Dwija Pada Saha		20392	52.75%
274					20894	44.01%				26579	55.99%
275			Dhiren Sen		16183	45.29%		Nitai Pada Ghosh		19552	54.71%
276			Panchanan Let		13936	46.86%				15089	50.74%		Dhwajadhari Let		712	2.39%
277			Braja Mohan Mukherjee		17061	43.37%		Ananda Gopal Roy		21151	53.77%		Becharam Sarkar		1127	2.86%
278			Trilochan Mal		12542	42.01%		Dhanapati Mal		17077	57.20%		Sanjay Kumar Saha		236	0.79%
279					12932	46.11%		Syed Shah Nawaz		9902	35.31%		Molia Zahrul Islam		2787	9.94%
280					11627	29.49%				25883	65.64%		Chatterjee Bhabani Prosad		1921	4.87%

Reception

While there were several killings during the election campaign, electoral violence had declined compared to previous elections in West Bengal.^[8]

The elections were marred by accusations of rigging.^{[9] [10]} CPI(M) and its allies refused to accept the election result.^[11] The left parties argued that in 172 constituencies the election had not been free and fair, accusing the Congress(R) of letting loose 'semi-fascist terror' in West Bengal.^[9] They protested by interrupting the President's speech in the Lok Sabha and in the Rajya Sabha.^[9] The Congress(O) also made accusations of rigging.^[10] The former Chief Minister Prafulla Chandra Sen on the other hand alleged that the election had been rigged in at least 45 constituencies.^[9]

Notes and References

1. Book: Shiv Lal. Elections in India: An Introduction. 1978. Election Archives. 30.
2. Book: Jacqueline Behrend. Laurence Whitehead. Illiberal Practices: Territorial Variance within Large Federal Democracies. 22 May 2016. Johns Hopkins University Press. 978-1-4214-1959-6. 63.
3. Book: Prabhat Kumar Palit. The Congress (O) in West Bengal Politics: Role Performance and Role Perception. 1983. B.B. Company, Publication Division. 77–78.
4. Book: Ramashray Roy. Paul Wallace. India's 2004 Elections: Grass-Roots and National Perspectives. 6 February 2007. SAGE Publications. 978-81-321-0110-9. 305.
5. Book: American Universities Field Staff. Reports Service: South Asia series. 1972. cxlv.
6. Book: Kiran Maitra. Marxism in India. 10 August 2012. Roli Books Private Limited. 978-81-7436-951-2. 212.
7. Book: Chiranjib Kumar Kar. Sub-regional Movement in India: A Case Study : Political History of the Morkhas [i.e. Gorkhas] in Darjeeling District. 1991. Kar. 54.
8. Book: Richard Felix Staar. Milorad M. Drachkovitch. Lewis H. Gann. Yearbook on International Communist Affairs. 1973. Hoover Institution Press. 458.
9. Book: Sudhir Ray. Marxist parties of West Bengal in opposition and in government, 1947-2001. 1 November 2007. Progressive Publishers. 978-81-8064-135-0. 164.
10. Book: Profulla Roychoudhury. West Bengal--a Decade, 1965-1975. 1977. Boipatra. 254.
11. Book: South Asia Series. 1973. American Universities Field Staff.. 14.