1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election

Elections were held in Indian state of West Bengal in February 1969 to elect 280 members to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.[1] United Front formed the government with Ajoy Mukherjee as the Chief Minister. United Front won a landslide 214 seats and 49.7% of the votes.[2]

1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election

9 February 1969

All 280 seats in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
141 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Jyoti Basu Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee
Party CPI(M) INC Bangla Congress
Alliance UF UF
Last election 43 127 34
Seats won 80 55 33
Seat change Increase 37 Decrease 67 Decrease 1

Chief Minister before election

President's rule

Elected Chief Minister

Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee
Bangla Congress

Background

President's Rule had been introduced in the state on 20 February 1968.[3] Following which, the previous legislative assembly was dissolved.[3]

Results

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Communist Party of India (Marxist)2,676,98119.9780
Indian National Congress5,538,62241.3255
Bangla Congress1,094,6548.1733
Communist Party of India938,4727.0030
All India Forward Bloc671,6645.0121
Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)375,9832.8012
Samyukta Socialist Party249,3621.869
Socialist Unity Centre of India202,7211.517
Praja Socialist Party175,8901.315
Lok Sewak Sangh99,8440.744
Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League71,6650.534
Progressive Muslim League (West Bengal)208,5741.563
Revolutionary Communist Party of India51,1810.382
Workers Party of India47,3910.352
Indian National Democratic Front118,6500.891
Marxist Forward Bloc27,1430.201
Others374,4212.7900
Independents481,0923.5911
Total13,404,310100.002800
Valid votes13,404,31097.43
Invalid/blank votes353,7622.57
Total votes13,758,072100.00
Registered voters/turnout20,685,11066.51
Source: ECI[4]

Elected members

Constituency Reserved for
(SC/ST/None)
Member Party
MekliganjNoneAmarendra Nath Roy Prouhan All India Forward Bloc
MathabhangaSCBirendra Nath Roy Indian National Congress
Cooch Behar WestSCPrasenjit Barman Indian National Congress
SitaiNoneMd. Fazle Haque Indian National Congress
DinhataNoneAnimesh Mukharjee Indian National Congress
Cooch Behar NorthNoneBimal Kanti Basu All India Forward Bloc
Cooch Behar SouthNoneSantosh Kumar Roy Indian National Congress
TufanganjSCAkshay Kumar Barma Indian National Congress
KumargramNonePijish Kanti Mukherjee Indian National Congress
KalchiniSTDenis Lakra Indian National Congress
AlipurduarsNoneNani Bhattacharya Revolutionary Socialist Party
FalakataSCJagadananda Roy Indian National Congress
MadarihatSTA . H . Besterwitcoh Revolutionary Socialist Party
DhupguriNoneAnildhar Guma Neogi Samyukta Socialist Party
NagrakataSTBudhu Bhagat Indian National Congress
MainaguriSCJajneswar Ray Indian National Congress
MalSTAntoni Topno Indian National Congress
JalpaiguriNoneNares Chandra Chakravorty Communist Party of India
RajganjSCKiran Chandra Roy Indian National Congress
KalimpongNoneP . L . Subba Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League
DarjeelingNoneDeo Prakash Rai Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League
Jore BungalowNoneNandalal Gurung Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League
SiliguriNonePrem Thapa Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League
PhansidewaSTIswar Chandra Tirkey Indian National Congress
ChopraNoneChoudhury Abdul Karim Indian National Democratic Front
GoalpokharNoneMohamad Salimuddin Praja Socialist Party
KarandighiNoneSuresh Chandra Sinha All India Forward Bloc
RaiganjNoneManash Roy Communist Party of India
KaliaganjSCBarman Syama Prasad Indian National Congress
ItaharNoneAbedin Zainal Indian National Congress
KushmandiSCJatindra Mohan Roy Indian National Congress
GangarampurNoneAhindra Sarkar Communist Party of India
KumarganjNoneAbinash Basu Bangla Congress
BalurghatNoneMukal Basu Revolutionary Socialist Party
TapanSTNathaniel Murmu Revolutionary Socialist Party
HabibpurSTNimai Chand Murmu Communist Party of India
GajolSTLakshan Saren Indian National Congress
KharbaNoneGolam Yazdani Independent
HarishchandrapurNoneMd. Elias Razi Workers Party of India
RatuaNoneMohammad Ali Independent
MaldaNoneMd. Gafurur Rahaman Indian National Congress
EnglishbazarNoneBimal Kanti Das Communist Party of India
ManikchakNoneArun Chandra Jha Indian National Congress
SuzapurNoneA . B . A . G . Khan Choudhry Indian National Congress
KaliachakNoneShamsuddin Ahmad Indian National Congress
FarakkaNoneSk. Sahadat Hossain Bangla Congress
SutiNoneMd. Sohorab Indian National Congress
JangipurNoneAbdul Haque Revolutionary Socialist Party
SagardighiSCKuber Chand Haldar Bangla Congress
LalgolaNoneAbdus Sattar Indian National Congress
BhagabangolaNoneSailendra Nath Adhicary Samyukta Socialist Party
NabagramNoneBirendra Narayan Roy Independent
MurshidabadNoneMohammad Idris Ali Indian National Congress
JalangiNoneAzizur Rahman Indian National Congress
DomkalNoneBiswas Ekram-ul - Haque Indian National Congress
NaodaNoneKhan Nasiruddin Progressive Muslim League
HariharparaNoneAhammad Aktabuddin Progressive Muslim League
BerhamporeNoneSanat Kumar Raha Communist Party of India
BeldangaNoneMuhammed Khuda Bukhsh Independent
KandiNoneKumar J . C . Sinha Independent
KhargramSCKumarish Chandra Moulick Revolutionary Socialist Party
BarwanNoneAmalendra Lal Ray Revolutionary Socialist Party
BharatpurNoneSatyapada Bhattacharyya Revolutionary Socialist Party
KarimpurNoneNalinaksha Sanyal Indian National Congress
TehattaNoneSurat Ali Khan Indian National Congress
KaliganjNoneS . M . Fazlur Rahman Indian National Congress
NakashiparaSCNil Kamal Sarkar Indian National Congress
ChapraNoneSalil Behari Hundle Bangla Congress
NabadwipNoneSachnidra Mohan Nandy Indian National Congress
Krishnagar WestNoneAmritendu Mukherjee Communist Party of India
Krishnagar EastNoneKashi Kanta Maitra Samyukta Socialist Party
HanskhaliSCCharuminir Sarkar Bangla Congress
SantipurNoneM. Makshed Ali Revolutionary Communist Party of India
Ranaghat WestNoneKundu Gourchandra Communist Party of India
Ranaghat EastSCNitaipada Sarkar Communist Party of India
ChakdahNoneSubal Chandra Mandal Bangla Congress
HaringhataNoneBaksh Mohammad Karin Independent
BagdahaSCApurba Lal Majumdar All India Forward Bloc
BongaonNoneAjit Kumar Ganguly Communist Party of India
GaighataNoneParul Saha Bangla Congress
AshokenagarNoneSadhan Kumar Sen Communist Party of India
BarasatNoneSaral Deb All India Forward Bloc
RajarhatSCRabindra Nath Mondal Communist Party of India
DegangaNoneHarun - Or - Rashid Progressive Muslim League
HabraNoneTarun Kanti Ghosh Indian National Congress
SwarupnagarNoneJaminiranjan Sen Communist Party of India
BaduriaNoneMir Abdus Sayeed Communist Party of India
BasirhatNoneA.b. Bandyopadhyaya Communist Party of India
HasnabadNoneAbdur Razzaque Khan Communist Party of India
HingalganjSCHazari Lal Mondal Communist Party of India
GosabaSCGanesh Chandra Mondal Revolutionary Socialist Party
SandeshkhaliSTSarat Sardar Communist Party of India
HaroaSCBrajendra Nath Sarkar Bangla Congress
BasantiNoneAshoke Chaudhuri Revolutionary Socialist Party
CanningSCNaryan Naskar Indian National Congress
KultaliSCPrabodh Purkait Socialist Unity Centre of India
JoynagarNoneSubodh Banerjee Socialist Unity Centre of India
BaruipurSCKumud Ranjan Mondal Samyukta Socialist Party
SonarpurSCGangadhar Naskar Communist Party of India
BhangarNoneA.k.m. Ishaque Indian National Congress
JadavpurNoneBikesh Chandra Guha Communist Party of India
Behala EastNoneNiranjan Mukherjee Communist Party of India
Behala WestNoneRabin Mukherjee Communist Party of India
Garden ReachNoneArun Sen Communist Party of India
MaheshtolaNoneSudhir Chandra Bhandari Communist Party of India
Budge BudgeNoneKhiti Bhusan Roy Barman Communist Party of India
Bishnupur WestNoneProvash Chandra Roy Communist Party of India
Bishnupur EastSCSundar Kumar Haskar Communist Party of India
FaltaNoneJyotish Roy Communist Party of India
Diamond HarbourNoneAbdul Quiyom Molla Communist Party of India
Magrahat EastSCRadhika Rajan Pramanik Communist Party of India
Magrahat WestNoneSachindranath Mondal Bangla Congress
KulpiSCMurari Mohan Halder Bangla Congress
MathurapurSCRenupada Halder Socialist Unity Centre of India
PatharpratimaNoneRabin Mondal Socialist Unity Centre of India
KakdwipNoneHansadhwaj Dhara Indian National Congress
SagarNoneGobardhan Dingal Bangla Congress
BijpurNoneJagadish Chandra Das Communist Party of India
NaihatiNoneGopal Basu Communist Party of India
BhatparaNoneSitaram Gupta Communist Party of India
NoaparaNoneJamini Bhuson Saha Communist Party of India
TitagarhNoneMohammed Amin Communist Party of India
KhardahNoneSadhan Kumar Chakraborty Communist Party of India
PanihatiNoneG.k. Bhattacharyya Communist Party of India
KamarhatiNoneRadhika Ranjan Banerjee Communist Party of India
BaranagarNoneJyoti Basu Communist Party of India
Dum DumNoneTarun Kumar Sen Gupta Communist Party of India
CossipurNoneBasu Vishnugopal Communist Party of India
ShampukurNoneBasu Hemanta Kumar All India Forward Bloc
JorabaganNoneRoy Nepal Chandra Indian National Congress
JorasankoNoneDeokinandan Poddar Indian National Congress
Bara BazarNoneSaraogi Ram Krishna Indian National Congress
Bow BazarNoneBijoy Singh Nahar Indian National Congress
ChowringheeNoneRay Siddhartha Shankar Indian National Congress
KabitirthaNoneKalimuddin Shams All India Forward Bloc
AliporeNoneMani Sanyal Communist Party of India
KalighatNoneSadhan Gupta Communist Party of India
Rashbehari AvenueNoneBejoy Kumar Banerjee Independent
TollygungeNoneNiranjan Sen Gupta Communist Party of India
DhakuriaNoneSomnath Lahiri Communist Party of India
BallygungeNoneJyotibhusan Bhattacharya Workers Party of India
Beliaghata SouthNoneManranjan Baral Communist Party of India
EntallyNoneA.m.o. Ghani Communist Party of India
TaltolaNoneAbul Hassan Communist Party of India
SealdahNoneJatin Chakravorty Revolutionary Socialist Party
VidyasagarNoneSamar Kumar Pudra Communist Party of India
Beliaghata NorthNoneKrishnapada Ghosh Communist Party of India
ManicktolaNoneIla Mitra Communist Party of India
BurtolaNoneNikhil Das Revolutionary Socialist Party
BelgachiaNoneLakshmicharan Sen Communist Party of India
BallyNonePatit Paban Pathak Communist Party of India
Howrah NorthNoneNirmal Kumar Mukherjee Indian National Congress
Howrah CentralNoneAnadi Das Revolutionary Communist Party of India
Howrah SouthNonePralay Talukdar Communist Party of India
PanchlaNoneKanai Lal Bhattacharyya All India Forward Bloc
DomjurNoneJoykesh Mukherjee Communist Party of India
JagatballavpurNoneTarapada Dey Communist Party of India
PanchlaNoneBibhuti Bhushin Ghosh All India Forward Bloc
SankrailSCHaran Chandra Hazra Communist Party of India
Uluberia NorthSCKalipada Mondal All India Forward Bloc
Uluberia SouthNoneBiswanath Das Ghose All India Forward Bloc
ShyampurNoneSasabindu Bora All India Forward Bloc
BangnanNoneNirupama Chatterjee Communist Party of India
KalyanpurNoneSunil Kumar Mitra Bangla Congress
AmtaNoneNitai Bhandari Communist Party of India
UdaynarayanpurNonePanna Lal Maji Communist Party of India
JangiparaNoneManinda Nath Jana Communist Party of India
ChanditalaNoneMohamed Abdul Latif Independent
UttaraparaNoneMonoranjan Hazra Communist Party of India
SeramporeNonePanchugopal Bhaduri Communist Party of India
ChampdaniNoneHaripada Mukherjee Communist Party of India
ChandernagoreNoneBhabani Mukehjee Communist Party of India
SingurNoneGopal Bandopadhaya Communist Party of India
HaripalNoneAmales Chadra Hazumdar Samyukta Socialist Party
ChinsurahNoneSambhu Charan Bhose All India Forward Bloc
PolbaNoneBrajo Gopal Neogy Communist Party of India
BalagarhSCHbinash Pramanik Communist Party of India
PanduaNoneDeb Narayan Chakrabarty Communist Party of India
DhaniakhaliSCKripa Sindhu Saha All India Forward Bloc
TarakeswarNoneRam Chatterjee Marxist Forward Bloc
PursurahNoneSanti Mohun Roy Indian National Congress
KhanakulSCMadan Saha Communist Party of India
ArambaghNonePrafulla Chandra Sen Indian National Congress
GoghatSCAjit Kumar Biswas All India Forward Bloc
ChandrakonaNoneSaroshi Choudhury Communist Party of India
GhatalSCNanda Rani Dal Communist Party of India
DaspurNoneMrigendra Bhattacharjya Communist Party of India
Panskura WestNoneAhindra Mishra Bangla Congress
Panskura EastNoneGeeta Mukhopadhyay Communist Party of India
MoynaNoneKanai Bhowmick Communist Party of India
TamlukNoneAjoy Kumar Mikhopadhyay Bangla Congress
MahishadalNoneSushil Kumar Dhara Bangla Congress
SutahataSCHarahari Deb Indian National Congress
NandigramNoneBhupal Chandra Panda Communist Party of India
NarghatNoneSubodh Chandra Maity Indian National Congress
BhagabanpurNoneMaity Abha Indian National Congress
KhajuriSCDas Paresh Bangla Congress
Contai NorthNoneSubodh Gopal Guchhait Praja Socialist Party
Contai SouthNoneDas Sudhir Praja Socialist Party
RamnagarNoneBalailal Das Mahapatra Praja Socialist Party
EgraNonePahati Bibhuti Praja Socialist Party
MugberiaNoneRoy Chaudhury Biswabrata Bangla Congress
PataspurNoneK.d. Mahapatra Communist Party of India
PinglaNoneGouranga Samanta Communist Party of India
DebraNoneBijoy Krishna Samanta Indian National Congress
KeshpurSCGangapada Kuar Bangla Congress
Garhbeta EastSCKrishna Prasad Duley Communist Party of India
Garhbeta WestNoneRoy Soroj Communist Party of India
SalbaniNoneAmulya Ratan Mahata Bangla Congress
MidnapurNoneKamakhya Charan Ghosh Communist Party of India
KharagpurNoneGan Singh Sohanpal Indian National Congress
Kharagpur LocalNoneDeben Das Communist Party of India
NarayangarhNoneLaha Mihirkumar Bangla Congress
DantanNoneDebendra Nath Das Bangla Congress
KeshiariSTBudhan Chandra Tudu Indian National Congress
NayagarmSTHansda Jagatrati Bangla Congress
GopiballavpurNoneKar Dhananjoy Samyukta Socialist Party
JhargramNoneDe Panchkari Bangla Congress
BinpurSTSaren Joyram Communist Party of India
BanduanSTBudheswar Majhi Indian National Congress
ManbazarNoneGirish Mahato Lok Sewak Sangh
BalarampurSTGobardhan Majhi Lok Sewak Sangh
ArsaNoneDahan Chandra Kuiri All India Forward Bloc
JhaldaNoneDebendra Nath Mahata Indian National Congress
JaipurNoneRam Krishna Mahato Indian National Congress
PuruliaNoneBibhuti Bhusan Das Gupta Lok Sewak Sangh
ParaSCTinkori Bouri Bangla Congress
RaghunathpurSCHari Pado Bouri Socialist Unity Centre of India
KashipurNonePrabir Kumar Mallick Communist Party of India
HuraNoneSaharendra Ojha Lok Sewak Sangh
TaldangraNoneMohini Mohan Panda Communist Party of India
RaipurSTBhabatosh Soren Bangla Congress
RanibandhSTSuchand Saren Communist Party of India
IndpurSCGour Lohar Bangla Congress
ChhatnaNoneSingh Sudarson Samyukta Socialist Party
GangajalghatiSCMandal Nabadurga Bangla Congress
BarjoraNoneAswini Kumar Raj Communist Party of India
BankuraNoneBireswar Ghosh Communist Party of India
OndaNoneAnil Kumar Mukherjee All India Forward Bloc
VishnupurNoneSasthidas Sarkar Bangla Congress
KotulpurNoneNiranjan Bhadra Bangla Congress
IndasSCAbani Kumar Saha Bangla Congress
SonamukhiSCSukhendu Khan Communist Party of India
HirapurNoneBamapada Mukherjee Communist Party of India
KultiNoneTarak Nath Chakraborty Samyukta Socialist Party
BarabaniNoneSunil Basu Roy Communist Party of India
AsansolNoneLokes Ghosh Communist Party of India
RaniganjNoneHaradhan Roy Communist Party of India
JamuriaSCAmarendra Mondal Indian National Congress
UkhraSCLakhan Bagdi Communist Party of India
DurgapurNoneDilip Kumar Mazumdar Communist Party of India
FaridpurNoneManoranjan Baksi Bangla Congress
AusgramSCKrishna Chandra Halder Communist Party of India
BhatarNoneAswini Roy Communist Party of India
GalsiNonePhakir Chandra Roy Independent
Burdwan NorthNoneDebarata Datta Communist Party of India
Burdwan SouthNoneBenoy Krishna Choudhuri Communist Party of India
KhandaghoshSCGobardhan Pakray Samyukta Socialist Party
RainaNoneGuha Panchu Gopal Communist Party of India
JamalpurSCBasudeb Malik Bangla Congress
MemariNoneKonar Benoy Krishna Communist Party of India
KalnaNoneHare Krishna Konar Communist Party of India
NadanghatNoneS. Abdul Mansur Habibullah Communist Party of India
ManteswarNoneK.n. Hazra Choudhury Communist Party of India
PurbasthaliNoneMollah Humayun Kabir Communist Party of India
KatwaNoneThakur Nityananda Indian National Congress
MangalkotNoneNikhilananda Sar Communist Party of India
KetugramSCRamgati Mondal Communist Party of India
NanurSCBanamali Das Communist Party of India
BolpurNonePannalal Das Gupta Independent
LabhpurNoneRadhanath Chttoraj Communist Party of India
DubrajpurNoneBhakti Bhusan Mondal All India Forward Bloc
RajnagarSCSiddheswar Mandal All India Forward Bloc
SuriNoneProtiva Mukherjee Socialist Unity Centre of India
Mahammad BazarNoneDwarika Prasonna Roy Bangla Congress
MayureswarSCPanchanan Let Communist Party of India
RampurhatNoneSasanka Sekhar Mongal All India Forward Bloc
HansanSCMondal Mrityunjoy All India Forward Bloc
NalhatiNoneGolam Mamiuddin Independent
MuraraiNoneBazle Ahmad Socialist Unity Centre of India

References

  1. "West Bengal 1969". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  2. Subrata K. Mitra (7 May 2007). The Puzzle of India's Governance: Culture, Context and Comparative Theory. Routledge. p. 99. ISBN 978-1-134-27493-2.
  3. Ramashray Roy (1975). The Uncertain Verdict: A Study of the 1969 Elections in Four Indian States. University of California Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-520-02475-5.
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