Constituency
31. Itahar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-ITAHAR
INC 52.4%won by 6.4%CPI 46.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 6.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 32.9% to 52.4% of the vote here (+19.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.4% of the vote between them, up from 67.5% — 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
42,508
Margin
2,734
6.43%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1JOYNAL ABEDINIndian National Congress · INC22,27652.4%
- 2BASANTLAL CHATTERJEECommunist Party of India · CPI19,54246.0%
- 3FAQU HASDAIndependent · IND6901.6%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- +8.2%
- INC share
- 32.9% → 52.4%
- CPI share
- 34.6% → 46.0%
- Turnout
- — → —