Constituency
24. Karandighi
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-KARANDIGHI
INC 45.1%won by 6.8%PSP 38.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.3% to 6.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.4% between them, down from 89.8% — the field split more ways.
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
24,468
Margin
1,663
6.80%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1PHANIS CHANDRA SINHAIndian National Congress · INC11,03845.1%
- 2SHAHABUDDIN AHMADPraja Socialist Party · PSP9,37538.3%
- 3SURESH CHADNRA SINHAFB · FB1,7547.2%
- 4SHYAM SORENSwatantra Party · SWA1,1464.7%
- 5EHESANUDDIN BISWASIndependent · IND8203.4%
- 6SANJOY MOHAN SINGHAIndependent · IND3351.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–PSP swing
- −18.5%
- INC share
- 57.5% → 45.1%
- PSP share
- 32.3% → 38.3%
- Turnout
- — → —