Constituency
90. Sonari
Community mirrorAssam Assembly Election, 1962
AS-SONARI
INC 61.9%won by 45.3%PSP 16.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 48.6% to 45.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Praja Socialist Party (PSP).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.4% between them, down from 88.6% — 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
16,679
Margin
7,561
45.33%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1BIMALA PRASAD CHALIHAIndian National Congress · INC10,31961.9%
- 2SASHIDHAR PHUKANPraja Socialist Party · PSP2,75816.5%
- 3HEM CHANDRA CHAHIndependent · IND2,36114.2%
- 4HARI KANTA BARUAHRani Chennamma Party · RCP1,2417.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–PSP swing
- −11.8%
- INC share
- 68.6% → 61.9%
- PSP share
- 11.4% → 16.5%
- Turnout
- — → —