Constituency
59. Nakashipara
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-NAKASHIPARA
INC 55.0%won by 34.9%SBP 20.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.2% to 34.9%.
- New challengerSwarna Bharat Party (SBP) finished second with 20.2% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress 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
42,527
Margin
14,829
34.87%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1S. M. FAZLUR RAHMANIndian National Congress · INC23,41155.0%
- 2MOHADEB BHATTACHARYASwarna Bharat Party · SBP8,58220.2%
- 3SUDHANSUSEKHAR SENCommunist Party of India · CPI8,39219.7%
- 4SUDHANGSHU NEOGISUC · SUC1,2302.9%
- 5NARU GOPAL GHOSEJS · JS9122.1%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SBP swing
- −5.0%
- INC share
- 39.9% → 55.0%
- SBP share
- 0.0% → 20.2%
- Turnout
- — → —