Constituency
12. Silchar West
Community mirrorAssam Assembly Election, 1962
AS-SILCHAR-WEST
IND 42.0%won by 22.9%INC 19.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 22.9%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 0.0% to 42.0% of the vote here (+42.0%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.1% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
33,930
Margin
7,759
22.87%
Candidates
5 contested · winner IND- 1NANDA KISHORE SINGHIndependent · IND14,24042.0%
- 2MAHITOSH PURKAYASTHAIndian National Congress · INC6,48119.1%
- 3LUTFUR RAHMANIndependent · IND6,35518.7%
- 4ACHINTA KUMAR BHATTACHARJEECommunist Party of India · CPI5,69816.8%
- 5NILMONI SINGHIndependent · IND1,1563.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–INC swing
- +78.2%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 42.0%
- INC share
- 55.4% → 19.1%
- Turnout
- — → —