Constituency
23. Goalpokhar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-GOALPOKHAR
PSP 42.0%won by 7.1%INC 34.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Praja Socialist Party (PSP), which now leads by 7.1%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.9% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
18,328
Margin
1,307
7.13%
Candidates
4 contested · winner PSP- 1MOHAMMAD HAYAT ALIPraja Socialist Party · PSP7,70042.0%
- 2MOHAMMAD MUZAFFAR HUSSAINIndian National Congress · INC6,39334.9%
- 3MOHAMMAD MOZAMMILSwatantra Party · SWA3,15217.2%
- 4MUKHIA MAHAMADDINFB · FB1,0835.9%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- PSPflipped
- PSP–INC swing
- +21.9%
- PSP share
- 42.6% → 42.0%
- INC share
- 57.4% → 34.9%
- Turnout
- — → —