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Constituency

47. Raninagar

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1962

WB-RANINAGAR

IND 69.3%won by 50.2%INC 19.1%

What changed here

Derived

Independent 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
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
33,687
Margin
16,919
50.22%

Since 1957

Derived
Winner then
IND
Winner now
IND
INDINC swing
+4.6%
IND share
64.4% 69.3%
INC share
18.8% 19.1%
Turnout