Constituency
76. Titagarh
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-TITAGARH
INC 50.2%won by 4.1%CPI 46.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 8.8% to 4.1%.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 46.1% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.3% of the vote between them, up from 80.4% — 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
47,469
Margin
1,927
4.06%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1KRISHNA KUMAR SHUKLAIndian National Congress · INC23,81550.2%
- 2SURENDRA CHANDRA CHOUDHURYCommunist Party of India · CPI21,88846.1%
- 3BALU HANUMANTO RAOSwatantra Party · SWA1,3542.9%
- 4RAM BABU SAHASOC · SOC4120.9%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −40.5%
- INC share
- 44.6% → 50.2%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 46.1%
- Turnout
- — → —