Constituency
84. Basirhat
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-BASIRHAT
INC 59.2%won by 24.3%CPI 34.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.1% to 24.3%.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 34.9% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.0% of the vote between them, up from 76.0% — 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
40,560
Margin
9,865
24.32%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1BIJESH CHANDRA SENIndian National Congress · INC24,00259.2%
- 2MONORANJAN SURCommunist Party of India · CPI14,13734.9%
- 3BANSHADHAR GHOSHPraja Socialist Party · PSP2,4216.0%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −14.7%
- INC share
- 39.0% → 59.2%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 34.9%
- Turnout
- — → —