Constituency
69. Bongaon
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-BONGAON
INC 56.9%won by 25.5%CPI 31.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 25.5%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 22.9% to 56.9% of the vote here (+34.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.3% of the vote between them, up from 49.9% — 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
58,407
Margin
14,880
25.48%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1JIBAN RATAN DHARIndian National Congress · INC33,22056.9%
- 2AJIT KUMAR GANGULYCommunist Party of India · CPI18,34031.4%
- 3BALAHARI MONDALPraja Socialist Party · PSP4,0937.0%
- 4SUDHIR KUMAR BASUHMS · HMS1,8223.1%
- 5RAMDAYAL DASJS · JS9321.6%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- +29.7%
- INC share
- 22.9% → 56.9%
- CPI share
- 27.1% → 31.4%
- Turnout
- — → —