Constituency
89. Bhangar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-BHANGAR
INC 57.7%won by 34.8%IND 22.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 15.4% to 34.8%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 80.6% of the vote between them, up from 72.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
52,552
Margin
18,263
34.75%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1A. K. M. ISAHAQUEIndian National Congress · INC30,32057.7%
- 2SAMIR KUMAR SIRCARIndependent · IND12,05722.9%
- 3LATEMAN ALI MOLLACommunist Party of India · CPI7,47914.2%
- 4ANIL GHOSHPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,3352.5%
- 5MOJAMMEL HOSSAINSwatantra Party · SWA1,1912.3%
- 6SHEKH HABIBAR RAHAMANIndependent · IND1700.3%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +19.3%
- INC share
- 43.9% → 57.7%
- IND share
- 28.5% → 22.9%
- Turnout
- — → —