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	==Results==		==Results==
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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
| country = India
| type = parliamentary
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
| previous_year = 1962
| next_election = 1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
| next_year = 1969
| election_date = 25 February 1967
| seats_for_election = All 280 seats in the [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly]]
| image2 = [[File:Jyoti Basu - Calcutta 1996-12-21 089 Cropped.png|100x100px]]
| leader2 = [[Jyoti Basu]]
| party2 = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
| alliance2 = [[People's United Left Front|PULF]]
| leaders_seat2 = [[Baranagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Baranagar]]
| seats2 = 43
| seat_change2 = {{increase}} 43
| popular_vote2 = 2,293,026
| percentage2 = 18.11%
| swing2 =
| image1 =
| leader1 = [[Prafulla Chandra Sen]]
| leaders_seat1 = [[Arambag East (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Arambag]]
| party1 = Indian National Congress
| alliance1 = [[Indian National Congress|INC+]]
| seats1 = 127
| seat_change1 = {{loss}} 30
| popular_vote1 = 5,207,930
| percentage1 = 41.13%
| swing1 =
| leader3 = [[Ajoy Mukherjee]]
| image3 = [[File:Unknown person.jpg|100x100px]]
| party3 = Bangla Congress
| alliance3 = [[People's United Left Front|PULF]]
| leaders_seat3 = [[Tamluk (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Tamluk]]
| seats3 = 34
| seat_change3 = {{increase}} 34
| popular_vote3 = 1,286,028
| percentage3 = 10.16%
| swing3 =
| title = [[Chief Minister of West Bengal|Chief Minister]]
| posttitle = [[Chief Minister of West Bengal|Chief Minister]]
| before_election = [[Prafulla Chandra Sen]]
| before_party = Indian National Congress
| after_election = [[Ajoy Mukherjee]]
| after_party = [[Bangla Congress]]/[[United Front (1967)|United Front]]
| majority_seats = 141
}}
The '''West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 1967''' was held in [[India]]n state of [[West Bengal]] in 1967 to elect 280 members to the [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://eci.gov.in/|title=Election Commission of India|website=Election Commission of India|language=en-IN|access-date=2018-12-20}}</ref> [[United Front (1967)|United Front]] led by [[Ajoy Mukherjee]] won majority of seats in the election, and formed first non-[[Indian National Congress|Congress]] government of the state.

==Results==
{{electiontable|West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 1967|Summary of results of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 1967<ref name="eci">{{cite web | url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/statisticalreports/SE_1967/Statistical%20report%20WB1967.pdf | title=eci.nic.in}}</ref>|sortable=yes}}
|- align=center
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable"|
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Political Party 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |No. of candidates 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |No. of elected 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of Votes 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seat change 
|-
{{Party colour|Indian National Congress}}
|align="left"|[[Indian National Congress]]||280||127||5,207,930||41.13%||{{decrease}} 30
|-
{{Party colour|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}
|align="left"|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]||135||43||2,293,026||18.11%||{{increase}} 43
|-
{{Party colour|Bangla Congress}}
|align="left"|[[Bangla Congress]]||80||34||1,286,028||10.16%||{{increase}} 34
|-
{{Party colour|Communist Party of India}}
|align="left"|[[Communist Party of India]]||62||16||827,196||6.53%||{{decrease}} 34
|-
{{Party colour|All India Forward Bloc}}
|align="left"|[[All India Forward Bloc]]||42||13||561148||4.43%||{{nochange}}
|-
|
|align="left"|[[Samyukta Socialist Party]]||26||7||269,234||2.13%||{{increase}} 7
|-
{{Party colour|Praja Socialist Party}}
|align="left"|[[Praja Socialist Party]]||26||7||238,694||1.88%||{{increase}} 2
|-
{{Party colour|Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)}}
|align="left"|[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party]]||16||6||238,694||2.14%||{{increase}} 2
|-
{{Party colour|Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)}}
|align="left"|[[Socialist Unity Centre of India]]||8||4||238,694||0.72%||{{increase}} 1
|-
{{Party colour|Marxist Forward Bloc}}
|align="left"|[[Marxist Forward Bloc]]||58||1||167,934||1.33%||{{increase}} 1
|-
{{Party colour|Revolutionary Communist Party of India}}
|align="left"|[[Revolutionary Communist Party of India]]||58||1||167,934||1.33%||{{decrease}} 8
|-
{{Party colour|Bharatiya Jana Sangh}}
|align="left"|[[Bharatiya Jana Sangh]]||58||1||167,934||1.33%||{{increase}} 1
|-
{{Party colour|Swatantra Party}}
|align="left"|[[Swatantra Party]]||21||1||102,576||0.81%||{{increase}} 1
|-
{{Party colour|Independent (politician)}}
|align="left"|[[Independent (politician)|Independents]]||327||31||1,708,011||13.49%||{{increase}} 20
|-
|
|align="left"|'''Total'''||'''1058'''||'''280'''||'''12,663,030'''||||
|-
|}

===Alliance wise result===
===Post-Poll Alliance===
[[United Front (1967)|United Front]] led by [[Ajoy Mukherjee]] formed the Government. United Front was combination of [[People's United Left Front]], an electoral combination of [[Communist Party of India]], the [[Bangla Congress]], the [[All India Forward Bloc]] and the [[Bolshevik Party of India]]<ref name="M.V.S. Koteswara Rao 2003. p. 227-229">M.V.S. Koteswara Rao. Communist Parties and United Front - Experience in Kerala and West Bengal. Hyderabad: Prajasakti Book House, 2003. p. 227-229.</ref> with [[United Left Front (1967)]], electoral alliance of The front comprised the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]], the [[Samyukta Socialist Party]], the [[Socialist Unity Centre of India]], the [[Marxist Forward Bloc]], the [[Revolutionary Communist Party of India]], the [[Workers Party of India]] and the [[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party]].<ref name="M.V.S. Koteswara Rao 2003. p. 227-229"/>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{West Bengal assembly elections}}

[[Category:State Assembly elections in West Bengal]]
[[Category:1960s in West Bengal]]
[[Category:1967 State Assembly elections in India]]

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	!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" \|Seat change<br />		!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" \|Seat change<br />
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	{{~~Party colour~~\|Indian National Congress}}		\| {{party color cell\|Indian National Congress}}
	\|align="left"\|[[Indian National Congress]]\|\|280\|\|127\|\|5,207,930\|\|41.13%\|\|{{decrease}} 30		\|align="left"\|[[Indian National Congress]]\|\|280\|\|127\|\|5,207,930\|\|41.13%\|\|{{decrease}} 30
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	{{~~Party colour~~\|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}		\| {{party color cell\|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}
	\|align="left"\|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]\|\|135\|\|43\|\|2,293,026\|\|18.11%\|\|{{increase}} 43		\|align="left"\|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]\|\|135\|\|43\|\|2,293,026\|\|18.11%\|\|{{increase}} 43
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	{{~~Party colour~~\|Bangla Congress}}		\| {{party color cell\|Bangla Congress}}
	\|align="left"\|[[Bangla Congress]]\|\|80\|\|34\|\|1,286,028\|\|10.16%\|\|{{increase}} 34		\|align="left"\|[[Bangla Congress]]\|\|80\|\|34\|\|1,286,028\|\|10.16%\|\|{{increase}} 34
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	{{~~Party colour~~\|Communist Party of India}}		\| {{party color cell\|Communist Party of India}}
	\|align="left"\|[[Communist Party of India]]\|\|62\|\|16\|\|827,196\|\|6.53%\|\|{{decrease}} 34		\|align="left"\|[[Communist Party of India]]\|\|62\|\|16\|\|827,196\|\|6.53%\|\|{{decrease}} 34
	\|-		\|-
	{{~~Party colour~~\|All India Forward Bloc}}		\| {{party color cell\|All India Forward Bloc}}
	\|align="left"\|[[All India Forward Bloc]]\|\|42\|\|13\|\|~~561148~~\|\|4.43%\|\|{{nochange}}		\|align="left"\|[[All India Forward Bloc]]\|\|42\|\|13\|\|561,148\|\|4.43%\|\|{{nochange}}
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	\|align="left"\|[[Samyukta Socialist Party]]\|\|26\|\|7\|\|269,234\|\|2.13%\|\|{{increase}} 7		\|align="left"\|[[Samyukta Socialist Party]]\|\|26\|\|7\|\|269,234\|\|2.13%\|\|{{increase}} 7
	\|-		\|-
	{{~~Party colour~~\|Praja Socialist Party}}		\| {{party color cell\|Praja Socialist Party}}
	\|align="left"\|[[Praja Socialist Party]]\|\|26\|\|7\|\|238,694\|\|1.88%\|\|{{increase}} 2		\|align="left"\|[[Praja Socialist Party]]\|\|26\|\|7\|\|238,694\|\|1.88%\|\|{{increase}} 2
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	{{~~Party colour~~\|Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)}}		\| {{party color cell\|Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)}}
	\|align="left"\|[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)\|Revolutionary Socialist Party]]\|\|16\|\|6\|\|238,694\|\|2.14%\|\|{{increase}} 2		\|align="left"\|[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)\|Revolutionary Socialist Party]]\|\|16\|\|6\|\|238,694\|\|2.14%\|\|{{increase}} 2
	\|-		\|-
	{{~~Party colour~~\|Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)}}		\| {{party color cell\|Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)}}
	\|align="left"\|[[Socialist Unity Centre of India]]\|\|8\|\|4\|\|238,694\|\|0.72%\|\|{{increase}} 1		\|align="left"\|[[Socialist Unity Centre of India]]\|\|8\|\|4\|\|238,694\|\|0.72%\|\|{{increase}} 1
	\|-		\|-
	{{~~Party colour~~\|Marxist Forward Bloc}}		\| {{party color cell\|Marxist Forward Bloc}}
	\|align="left"\|[[Marxist Forward Bloc]]\|\|58\|\|1\|\|167,934\|\|1.33%\|\|{{increase}} 1		\|align="left"\|[[Marxist Forward Bloc]]\|\|58\|\|1\|\|167,934\|\|1.33%\|\|{{increase}} 1
	\|-		\|-
	{{~~Party colour~~\|Revolutionary Communist Party of India}}		\| {{party color cell\|Revolutionary Communist Party of India}}
	\|align="left"\|[[Revolutionary Communist Party of India]]\|\|58\|\|1\|\|167,934\|\|1.33%\|\|{{decrease}} 8		\|align="left"\|[[Revolutionary Communist Party of India]]\|\|58\|\|1\|\|167,934\|\|1.33%\|\|{{decrease}} 8
	\|-		\|-
	{{~~Party colour~~\|Bharatiya Jana Sangh}}		\| {{party color cell\|Bharatiya Jana Sangh}}
	\|align="left"\|[[Bharatiya Jana Sangh]]\|\|58\|\|1\|\|167,934\|\|1.33%\|\|{{increase}} 1		\|align="left"\|[[Bharatiya Jana Sangh]]\|\|58\|\|1\|\|167,934\|\|1.33%\|\|{{increase}} 1
	\|-		\|-
	{{~~Party colour~~\|Swatantra Party}}		\| {{party color cell\|Swatantra Party}}
	\|align="left"\|[[Swatantra Party]]\|\|21\|\|1\|\|102,576\|\|0.81%\|\|{{increase}} 1		\|align="left"\|[[Swatantra Party]]\|\|21\|\|1\|\|102,576\|\|0.81%\|\|{{increase}} 1
	\|-		\|-
	{{~~Party colour~~\|Independent (politician)}}		\| {{party color cell\|Independent (politician)}}
	\|align="left"\|[[Independent (politician)\|Independents]]\|\|327\|\|31\|\|1,708,011\|\|13.49%\|\|{{increase}} 20		\|align="left"\|[[Independent (politician)\|Independents]]\|\|327\|\|31\|\|1,708,011\|\|13.49%\|\|{{increase}} 20
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