Constituency
72. Bijpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-BIJPUR
CPI 47.3%won by 3.8%INC 43.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 8.5% to 3.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- 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
43,122
Margin
1,645
3.81%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPISince 1957
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- −4.7%
- CPI share
- 50.3% → 47.3%
- INC share
- 41.8% → 43.4%
- Turnout
- — → —