Constituency
63. Santipur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-SANTIPUR
IND 53.8%won by 18.5%INC 35.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 18.5%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 36.8% to 53.8% of the vote here (+17.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.1% of the vote between them, up from 83.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
49,352
Margin
9,153
18.55%
Candidates
3 contested · winner IND- 1KANAI PALIndependent · IND26,55353.8%
- 2HARIDAS DEYIndian National Congress · INC17,40035.3%
- 3BIJAN KUMAR CHAKRAVARTISwarna Bharat Party · SBP5,39910.9%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–INC swing
- +28.7%
- IND share
- 36.8% → 53.8%
- INC share
- 46.9% → 35.3%
- Turnout
- — → —