Constituency
20. Siliguri
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-SILIGURI
INC 38.2%won by 5.5%CPI 32.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 5.5%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 16.0% to 38.2% of the vote here (+22.2%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 70.9% of the vote between them, up from 33.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
32,532
Margin
1,793
5.51%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1JAGADISH CHANDRA BHATTACHARJEEIndian National Congress · INC12,42738.2%
- 2SATYENDRA NARAYAN MAZUMDARCommunist Party of India · CPI10,63432.7%
- 3PREM THAPAGL · GL7,29622.4%
- 4PRODYOT KUMAR BASUIndependent · IND2,1756.7%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- +7.0%
- INC share
- 16.0% → 38.2%
- CPI share
- 17.5% → 32.7%
- Turnout
- — → —