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|election_name = 1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election<br />
|country = India<br />
|type = Legislative<br />
|previous_election = 1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election<br />
|previous_year = 1967<br />
|ongoing = no<br />
|next_election = 1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election<br />
|next_year = 1971<br />
|party1 = Communist Party of India (Marxist)<br />
|leader1 = [[Jyoti Basu]]<br />
|image1 = [[File:Jyoti Basu - Calcutta 1996-12-21 089 Cropped.png|100x100px]]<br />
|alliance1 = [[Second Ajoy Mukherjee ministry|United Front]]<br />
|seats1 = 80<br />
|party2 = Indian National Congress<br />
|seats2 = 55<br />
|party3 = Bangla Congress<br />
|leader3 = [[Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee]]<br />
|image3 = <br />
|alliance3 = [[Second Ajoy Mukherjee ministry|United Front]]<br />
|seats3 = 92<br />
|party4 = Communist Party of India<br />
|seats4 = 30<br />
|party5 = All India Forward Bloc<br />
|alliance5 = [[Second Ajoy Mukherjee ministry|United Front]]<br />
|seats5 = 21<br />
|party6 = Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)<br />
|alliance6 = [[Second Ajoy Mukherjee ministry|United Front]]<br />
|seats6 = 12<br />
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The '''West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 1969''' was held in [[India]]n state of [[West Bengal]] in 1969 to elect 280 members to the [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3185-west-bengal-1969/|title=West Bengal 1969|publisher=[[Election Commission of India]]|website=eci.gov.in|language=en-IN|access-date=24 July 2020}}</ref> [[Second United Front Cabinet|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.<ref name="Mitra2007">{{cite book|author=Subrata K. Mitra|title=The Puzzle of India's Governance: Culture, Context and Comparative Theory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GuILNHwcT4AC&pg=PA99|date=7 May 2007|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-27493-2|page=99}}</ref><br />
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==Background==<br />
[[President's Rule]] had been introduced in the state on 20 February 1968.<ref name="Roy197533">{{cite book|author=Ramashray Roy|title=The Uncertain Verdict: A Study of the 1969 Elections in Four Indian States|url=https://archive.org/details/uncertainverdict0000royr|url-access=registration|year=1975|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-02475-5|page=[https://archive.org/details/uncertainverdict0000royr/page/33 33]}}</ref> Following which, the previous legislative assembly was dissolved.<ref name="Roy197533"/> <br />
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