Constituency
14. Jalpaiguri
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-JALPAIGURI
INC 48.8%won by 17.1%CPI 31.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.5% to 17.1%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Communist Party of India (CPI).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 80.6% of the vote between them, up from 53.3% — 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
38,942
Margin
6,653
17.08%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INCSince 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- +13.5%
- INC share
- 26.9% → 48.8%
- CPI share
- 23.3% → 31.7%
- Turnout
- — → —