Constituency
108. Behala
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-BEHALA
CPI 55.0%won by 19.2%INC 35.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 31.4% to 19.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 90.8% between them, down from 98.1% — 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
64,852
Margin
12,438
19.18%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPISince 1957
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- −12.3%
- CPI share
- 64.8% → 55.0%
- INC share
- 33.3% → 35.8%
- Turnout
- — → —