Constituency
83. Baduria
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-BADURIA
INC 52.7%won by 8.8%CPI 43.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 27.4% to 8.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.5% of the vote between them, up from 87.6% — 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
45,946
Margin
4,059
8.83%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1MD. ZIAUL HAQUEIndian National Congress · INC24,20552.7%
- 2MIR ABDUS SAYEEDCommunist Party of India · CPI20,14643.8%
- 3KSHITINDRA NATH CHOUDHURYJS · JS1,0232.2%
- 4ABDUL LATIFIndependent · IND5721.2%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −18.6%
- INC share
- 57.5% → 52.7%
- CPI share
- 30.1% → 43.8%
- Turnout
- — → —