Constituency
117. Tollygunge
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-TOLLYGUNGE
CPI 56.3%won by 17.2%INC 39.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 17.2%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 0.0% to 56.3% of the vote here (+56.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.5% of the vote between them, up from 86.4% — 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
72,888
Margin
12,518
17.17%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPI- 1NIRANJAN SENGUPTACommunist Party of India · CPI41,04956.3%
- 2ASHA GHOSHIndian National Congress · INC28,53139.1%
- 3JIBAN LAL CHATTERJEEWPI · WPI2,3843.3%
- 4RANJAN KUMAR MUKHERJEEHMS · HMS9241.3%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +47.1%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 56.3%
- INC share
- 29.9% → 39.1%
- Turnout
- — → —