Constituency
55. Hariharpara
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-HARIHARPARA
INC 48.0%won by 11.6%IND 36.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 28.8% to 11.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 16.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.5% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
43,213
Margin
5,021
11.62%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1ABDUL LATIFIndian National Congress · INC20,76348.0%
- 2SUBRAHMANYA KRISHNA CHOUDHURYIndependent · IND15,74236.4%
- 3YAKUB ALIIndependent · IND4,1469.6%
- 4ISLAM NAZRULIndependent · IND1,3193.1%
- 5MD. TORABUDDINIndependent · IND8642.0%
- 6SABER ALI SAIKHIndependent · IND3790.9%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −17.2%
- INC share
- 64.4% → 48.0%
- IND share
- 35.6% → 36.4%
- Turnout
- — → —