Constituency
99. Falta
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-FALTA
INC 52.7%won by 13.5%CPI 39.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.6% to 13.5%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 91.9% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
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
46,003
Margin
6,206
13.49%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1KHAGENDRA NATH DASIndian National Congress · INC24,24952.7%
- 2JYOTISH CHANDRA ROYCommunist Party of India · CPI18,04339.2%
- 3SUSHIL KAPATIndependent · IND1,4273.1%
- 4AFALA MIRIndependent · IND1,0092.2%
- 5KALIPADA MONDALIndependent · IND6811.5%
- 6TARAVANAT ACHUTA MENONIndependent · IND3470.8%
- 7HARAN ALI MOLLAIndependent · IND1680.4%
- 8JAHARADDIN SHAIKHIndependent · IND790.2%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- +9.9%
- INC share
- 51.8% → 52.7%
- CPI share
- 48.2% → 39.2%
- Turnout
- — → —