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West Bengal · Assembly Constituency 112 · 19572 seats · 1 SC

Kharagpur Local

Winner — 1957

MRITYUNJOY JANA
INC· INC
Also elected — same seat
KRISHNA PRASAD MANDAL
INC· 27,963 votes
INC 30.1%INC 28.6%4 others 41.3%
Votes
29,460
30.1% share
Winning margin
12,645
12.9% of votes
Total candidates
6
Turnout
40.0%
of 1,22,431

A clear win with a 12.9% margin.

Seat history

All Candidates

6 total
#CandidatePartyVotesShare
1
MRITYUNJOY JANA
29,46030.1%
2
KRISHNA PRASAD MANDAL
27,96328.6%
3
DEBEN DAS
16,81517.2%
4
SURENDRA NATH PRAMANIK
14,13614.4%
5
BEJOY KUMA GHORAI
5,2835.4%
6
KRISHNA CHANDRA SATPATHI
4,2424.3%

Affidavit details — declared assets, criminal cases and education — aren't available for this seat yet. The results above are complete; only the candidate-affidavit layer is missing.

Low turnout (245th), a closer-than-average contest, a two-to-three-way race.

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How safe is this seat?

SEAT
lean
12.9%
MORE COMPETITIVESAFER
mean 13.5% · min 0.3% · max 46.8%

How contested is turnout?

SEAT
91%
lowerhigher
245th of 294

How crowded is the field?

SEAT
2.71
fewer partiesmore parties
55th of 294

How much NOTA?

SEAT
0.8%
lowerhigher
124th of 294

Where does the house stand?

SEAT
252 seats · 127 majority

How did the vote split?

SEAT
2.71EFFECTIVE PARTIES
INC 30.1%INC 28.6%CPI 17.2%PSP 14.4%BJS 5.4%OTH 4.3%

Who ran, on record?

SEAT
NOT YET COMPUTED

A dense, urban district — more literate than the national rate.

Who lives here?

DISTRICTCENSUS 2011
Population
1,00,09,781
Density
2445 / km²
Sex ratio
955 ♀/1000 ♂
Area
4,094 km²
SC population21.7%
ST population2.6%

What faith is practised here?

DISTRICTCENSUS 2011 C-01
73%HINDU
Hindu 73.5%Muslim 25.8%Other 0.7%

How developed is it?

DISTRICTCENSUS 2011
Tap water38.9%
Electricity70.4%
Sanitation87.5%

How healthy is it?

DISTRICTNFHS-5 · 2019-21
Institutional births97.5%
Children fully vaccinated92.8%
Children stunted (under 5)▼ LOWER IS BETTER32.4%
Children underweight (under 5)23.6%
Women anaemic (15-49)▼ LOWER IS BETTER65.3%
Women literate85.5%
Women married before 18▼ LOWER IS BETTER33.6%
Clean cooking fuel58.9%
Health insurance30.7%

What's nearby?

SEATWIKIDATA · ASI
Known forDISTRICT
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Landmark data: Wikidata (CC0) · ASI (Government of India, official). Images: Wikimedia Commons (individual CC / public-domain licenses, see each file). Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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