Constituency
19. Jore Bungalow
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-JORE-BUNGALOW
CPI 41.7%won by 0.6%GL 41.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 6.0% to 0.6%.
- New challengerGL (GL) finished second with 41.1% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 82.8% of the vote between them, up from 59.0% — 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
21,482
Margin
129
0.60%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1BHADRA BAHADUR HAMALCommunist Party of India · CPI8,96141.7%
- 2NANDALAL GURUNGGL · GL8,83241.1%
- 3RUSTAM ALIIndian National Congress · INC3,68917.2%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–GL swing
- −31.9%
- CPI share
- 32.5% → 41.7%
- GL share
- 0.0% → 41.1%
- Turnout
- — → —