1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election

1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
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All 280 seats in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
148 seats needed for a majority
Turnout62.03% (Decrease 4.48 pp)
  Majority party Minority party
 
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INC
Leader Jyoti Basu Abdus Sattar
Party CPI(M) INC
Leader since 1964 1971
Leader's seat Baranagar Lalgola
Last election 20.0%, 80 seats New
Seats won 141 105
Seat change Increase 33 Increase 105
Popular vote 4,241,557 3,767,314
Percentage 32.9% 29.2%
Swing Increase 13.0 pp Increase 29.2 pp
CM before election

Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee
Bangla Congress

Elected CM

Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee
Bangla Congress

1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
CPI(M) Jyoti Basu 113 +33
Congress (R) 105 +50
Communist Party of India 13 −17
Socialist Unity Centre of India 7 0
Indian Union Muslim League 7 +7
Bangla Congress Ajoy Mukherjee 5 −28
ULF Independents 4 New
All India Forward Bloc 3 −18
Revolutionary Socialist Party 3 −9
Praja Socialist Party 3 −2
Revolutionary Communist Party of India Sudhindranath Kumar 3 +1
Congress (O) 2 New
Jharkhand Party 2 New
Workers Party of India 2 0
Marxist Forward Bloc 2 +1
All India Gorkha League 2 −2
Bharatiya Jan Sangh 1 +1
Biplobi Bangla Congress 1 New
Samyukta Socialist Party dissident 1 New
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Legislative Assembly elections were held in the Indian state of West Bengal in 1971. The assembly election was held alongside the 1971 Indian general election.[1]

  1. ^ Suresh K. Tameri (1971). The Wonder Elections, 1971: Indira Versus the Right. Vivek Publishing House. p. 251.