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Constituency

18. Darjeeling

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1962

WB-DARJEELING

GL 49.2%won by 24.3%CPI 24.8%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to GL (GL), which now leads by 24.3%.

  • GL vote shareGL went from 0.0% to 49.2% of the vote here (+49.2%).
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 74.0% of the vote between them, up from 65.5% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
18,588
Margin
4,520
24.32%

Candidates

5 contested · winner GL
  1. 1DEO PRAKASH RAIGL · GL9,13949.2%
  2. 2ANANDA PRASAD PATHAKCommunist Party of India · CPI4,61924.8%
  3. 3D. YONJANIndian National Congress · INC3,41318.4%
  4. 4JATIG CHANDRA RAIIndependent · IND1,1836.4%
  5. 5TARAK KUMAR KASHIPraja Socialist Party · PSP2341.3%

Since 1957

Derived
Winner then
IND
Winner now
GLflipped
GL–CPI swing
+56.5%
GL share
0.0% → 49.2%
CPI share
32.2% → 24.8%
Turnout
— → —
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