Constituency
8. Alipur Duars
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-ALIPUR-DUARS
INC 49.9%won by 6.5%IND 43.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.1% to 6.5%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.2% of the vote between them, up from 83.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
33,157
Margin
2,163
6.52%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1PIJUSH KANTI MUKHERJEEIndian National Congress · INC16,53349.9%
- 2NILKANTHA ROYIndependent · IND14,37043.3%
- 3KONDA BHAGATIndependent · IND1,5804.8%
- 4SATISH CHANDRA ROYPraja Socialist Party · PSP6742.0%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −8.6%
- INC share
- 49.2% → 49.9%
- IND share
- 34.2% → 43.3%
- Turnout
- — → —