Constituency
74. Bhatpara
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-BHATPARA
INC 56.1%won by 14.4%CPI 41.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 14.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 39.0% to 56.1% of the vote here (+17.1%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.9% of the vote between them, up from 78.9% — 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
41,429
Margin
5,982
14.44%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1DAYARAM BEGIIndian National Congress · INC23,26156.1%
- 2SITA RAM GUPTACommunist Party of India · CPI17,27941.7%
- 3MUNSHI BAKRIDANIndependent · IND5081.2%
- 4SITA SETTIndependent · IND3810.9%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- +15.2%
- INC share
- 39.0% → 56.1%
- CPI share
- 39.8% → 41.7%
- Turnout
- — → —