Constituency
62. Nalbari West
Community mirrorAssam Assembly Election, 1967
AS-NALBARI-WEST
INC 37.2%won by 3.5%CPI 33.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.3% to 3.5%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.8% between them, down from 79.0% — 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
28,983
Margin
1,028
3.55%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1B. BARMANIndian National Congress · INC10,77637.2%
- 2T.S. DEKACommunist Party of India · CPI9,74833.6%
- 3P. BARMANPraja Socialist Party · PSP5,20318.0%
- 4D.R. PATHAKBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,6615.7%
- 5P.K. DASIndependent · IND1,3584.7%
- 6M.H. ALIIndependent · IND2370.8%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −15.8%
- INC share
- 49.2% → 37.2%
- CPI share
- 29.9% → 33.6%
- Turnout
- — → —