Constituency
39. Sujapur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-SUJAPUR
INC 63.4%won by 26.7%SWA 36.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 26.7%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 29.4% to 63.4% of the vote here (+33.9%).
- New challengerSwatantra Party (SWA) finished second with 36.6% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 70.6% — 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
29,417
Margin
7,859
26.72%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1ASHADULLA CHOUDHURYIndian National Congress · INC18,63863.4%
- 2SAMJUDDIN AHAMMEDSwatantra Party · SWA10,77936.6%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SWA swing
- −2.7%
- INC share
- 29.4% → 63.4%
- SWA share
- 0.0% → 36.6%
- Turnout
- — → —