Constituency
66. Chakdah
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-CHAKDAH
INC 51.3%won by 26.5%CPI 24.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 26.5%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 42.8% to 51.3% of the vote here (+8.4%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 24.7% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.0% between them, down from 94.9% — 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
44,659
Margin
11,853
26.54%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1SANTI DASIndian National Congress · INC22,89451.3%
- 2AKHIL CHANDRA NANDYCommunist Party of India · CPI11,04124.7%
- 3SOUMYENDRA NATH TAGOREIndependent · IND8,69619.5%
- 4MONOHAR ROYIndependent · IND2,0284.5%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- −16.3%
- INC share
- 42.8% → 51.3%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 24.7%
- Turnout
- — → —