Constituency
40. Kaliachak
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-KALIACHAK
IND 48.2%won by 13.6%INC 34.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 13.6%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 37.6% to 48.2% of the vote here (+10.6%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.8% between them, down from 88.4% — 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
40,768
Margin
5,549
13.61%
Candidates
6 contested · winner IND- 1PROMODE RANJAN BOSEIndependent · IND19,65348.2%
- 2ABU BARKAT ATUAL GANI KHAN CHOUDHURYIndian National Congress · INC14,10434.6%
- 3NUHUL ISLAMCommunist Party of India · CPI3,4418.4%
- 4ABDUL GAFUR BISWASIndependent · IND1,7014.2%
- 5GIRISH CHANDRA MANDALIndependent · IND1,4743.6%
- 6SUKLAL SARKARIndependent · IND3951.0%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–INC swing
- +26.7%
- IND share
- 37.6% → 48.2%
- INC share
- 50.7% → 34.6%
- Turnout
- — → —