Constituency
97. Kulpi
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-KULPI
IND 46.8%won by 1.2%INC 45.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 1.2%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 4.0% to 46.8% of the vote here (+42.9%).
- 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
49,831
Margin
617
1.24%
Candidates
6 contested · winner IND- 1HRISHIKESH HALDERIndependent · IND23,33946.8%
- 2HANSADHWAJ DHARAIndian National Congress · INC22,72245.6%
- 3NALINI KANTA PRAMANIKSUC · SUC2,9005.8%
- 4SUDHA SINDHU PURKAITIndependent · IND3430.7%
- 5AMALENDU BANDYOPADHYAYIndependent · IND3110.6%
- 6GOLAM RABBANI BAIDYAIndependent · IND2160.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–INC swing
- +50.6%
- IND share
- 4.0% → 46.8%
- INC share
- 53.3% → 45.6%
- Turnout
- — → —