Constituency
47. Raninagar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-RANINAGAR
IND 69.3%won by 50.2%INC 19.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin widened from 45.6% to 50.2%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.5% of the vote between them, up from 83.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatIndependent won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 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
33,687
Margin
16,919
50.22%
Candidates
4 contested · winner IND- 1SYED BADRUDDUJAIndependent · IND23,36069.3%
- 2AZIZUR RAHMANIndian National Congress · INC6,44119.1%
- 3JIBAN KUMAR CHOUDHURYIndependent · IND2,4837.4%
- 4NRIPENDRA NATH BISWASIndependent · IND1,4034.2%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–INC swing
- +4.6%
- IND share
- 64.4% → 69.3%
- INC share
- 18.8% → 19.1%
- Turnout
- — → —