Constituency
110. Fort
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-FORT
INC 51.8%won by 8.5%CPI 43.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 29.6% to 8.5%.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 43.3% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.1% of the vote between them, up from 73.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
26,787
Margin
2,264
8.45%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1MAITREYEE BOSEIndian National Congress · INC13,87151.8%
- 2NARESH CHANDRA BANERJEECommunist Party of India · CPI11,60743.3%
- 3BHUT NATH DEYIndependent · IND1,3094.9%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −43.0%
- INC share
- 51.5% → 51.8%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 43.3%
- Turnout
- — → —