1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election

1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
← 1962 25 February 1967 1969 →
All 280 seats in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
141 seats needed for a majority
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Leader Prafulla Chandra Sen Jyoti Basu Ajoy Mukherjee
Party INC CPI(M) Bangla Congress
Alliance ULF PULF
Leader since 1962 1964 1967
Leader's seat Arambag (lost) Baranagar Tamluk (vacated)
Arambag
Last election 47.3%, 157 seats New New
Seats won 127 43 34
Seat change Decrease 30 Increase 43 Increase 34
Popular vote 5,207,930 2,293,026 1,286,028
Percentage 41.1% 18.1% 10.16%
Swing Decrease 6.2 pp New New
Structure of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly after the election
Chief Minister before election

Prafulla Chandra Sen
INC

Chief Minister after election

Ajoy Mukherjee
Bangla Congress

Legislative Assembly elections were held in Indian state of West Bengal in 1967 to elect 280 members to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.[1] United Front led by Ajoy Mukherjee won majority of seats in the election, and formed the first non-Congress government of the state.[2]

  1. ^ "Election Commission of India". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
  2. ^ Pala Badaler Pala; Barun Sengupta (1971). Adi Parba (in Bengali). Kolkata: Ananda Publishers. p. 14.