Constituency
91. Canning
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-CANNING
INC 46.0%won by 2.6%IND 43.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.9% to 2.6%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.4% of the vote between them, up from 59.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
34,262
Margin
882
2.57%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1KHAGENDRA NATH NASKARIndian National Congress · INC15,75946.0%
- 2AMULYA CHARAN NASKARIndependent · IND14,87743.4%
- 3LALIT KUMAR SINHARashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP1,8625.4%
- 4KSHUDIRAM NASKARSUC · SUC1,7645.1%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −22.4%
- INC share
- 30.5% → 46.0%
- IND share
- 5.6% → 43.4%
- Turnout
- — → —