Constituency
11. Falakata
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-FALAKATA
INC 40.4%won by 3.3%PSP 37.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 3.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 46.4% to 40.4% of the vote here (−5.9%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.5% between them, down from 93.6% — 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
40,471
Margin
1,354
3.35%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1HIRALAL SINGHAIndian National Congress · INC16,35140.4%
- 2JAGADANANDA ROYPraja Socialist Party · PSP14,99737.1%
- 3SOMAR GANGULYCommunist Party of India · CPI6,75116.7%
- 4TIMRU URAONIndependent · IND2,3725.9%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–PSP swing
- +4.3%
- INC share
- 46.4% → 40.4%
- PSP share
- 47.3% → 37.1%
- Turnout
- — → —