Constituency
99. Tengakhat
Community mirrorAssam Assembly Election, 1962
AS-TENGAKHAT
INC 48.7%won by 27.2%SOC 21.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 55.6% to 27.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 20.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerSOC (SOC) finished second with 21.5% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.1% between them, down from 83.3% — 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
16,369
Margin
4,456
27.22%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1MANIK CHANDRA DASIndian National Congress · INC7,96948.7%
- 2JONARAM NEOGSOC · SOC3,51321.5%
- 3DURGA KHAKHLARIPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,91811.7%
- 4THOMASIndependent · IND1,86111.4%
- 5UCCHA KAMAL CHETIAIndependent · IND1,1086.8%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SOC swing
- −42.3%
- INC share
- 69.5% → 48.7%
- SOC share
- 0.0% → 21.5%
- Turnout
- — → —