Constituency
9. Kalchini
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-KALCHINI
RSP 43.4%won by 5.0%INC 38.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Rashtriya Sarvajan Party (RSP), which now leads by 5.0%.
- RSP vote shareRSP went from 0.0% to 43.4% of the vote here (+43.4%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 81.7% of the vote between them, up from 51.9% — 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
40,171
Margin
1,993
4.96%
Candidates
6 contested · winner RSP- 1NANI BHATTACHARJEERashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP17,41543.4%
- 2ANIMA HOAREIndian National Congress · INC15,42238.4%
- 3NILKANTA MUKHERJEIndependent · IND2,9427.3%
- 4MAHENDRA CHANDRA MECHPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,9915.0%
- 5RAPHAL TOPPOIndependent · IND1,4073.5%
- 6HARI KANTA SARKARIndependent · IND9942.5%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- RSPflipped
- RSP–INC swing
- +33.3%
- RSP share
- 0.0% → 43.4%
- INC share
- 28.3% → 38.4%
- Turnout
- — → —