Constituency
85. Hasnabad
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-HASNABAD
INC 61.5%won by 26.7%CPI 34.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.6% to 26.7%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.4% of the vote between them, up from 50.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
42,455
Margin
11,328
26.68%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1DINABANDHU DASIndian National Congress · INC26,12061.5%
- 2HEMANTA GHOSHALCommunist Party of India · CPI14,79234.8%
- 3BAZLUR RAHAMANIndependent · IND9562.3%
- 4BROHMACHARI BHOLANATHIndependent · IND5871.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- +26.1%
- INC share
- 25.7% → 61.5%
- CPI share
- 25.0% → 34.8%
- Turnout
- — → —