Constituency
12. Mainaguri
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-MAINAGURI
INC 37.7%won by 12.0%PSP 25.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 18.5% to 12.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 14.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 63.4% between them, down from 85.2% — 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
33,948
Margin
4,081
12.02%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1KAMINI MOHAN ROYIndian National Congress · INC12,80637.7%
- 2PANCHANAN MALIKPraja Socialist Party · PSP8,72525.7%
- 3JAJNESWAR ROYIndependent · IND6,00817.7%
- 4DHARANI MOHAN ROYCommunist Party of India · CPI5,57916.4%
- 5DEBENDRA NATH ROYIndependent · IND8302.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–PSP swing
- −6.5%
- INC share
- 51.9% → 37.7%
- PSP share
- 33.3% → 25.7%
- Turnout
- — → —