Constituency
6. Karimganj South
Community mirrorAssam Assembly Election, 1962
AS-KARIMGANJ-SOUTH
INC 35.5%won by 10.6%CPI 24.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 7.9% to 10.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 17.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 24.8% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 60.3% between them, down from 97.1% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
27,861
Margin
2,967
10.65%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1ABDUL MUNIM CHOWDHURYIndian National Congress · INC9,88135.5%
- 2JAJNESWAR DASCommunist Party of India · CPI6,91424.8%
- 3MOHIT MOHAN DASIndependent · IND6,70524.1%
- 4ABDUL LATIFIndependent · IND4,36115.7%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −41.8%
- INC share
- 52.5% → 35.5%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 24.8%
- Turnout
- — → —