Constituency
125. Entally
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-ENTALLY
CPI 44.1%won by 2.2%INC 41.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.8% to 2.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.0% between them, down from 97.3% — 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
37,824
Margin
815
2.15%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPI- 1ABU ASAD MOHAMMED OBAIDUL GHANICommunist Party of India · CPI16,66744.1%
- 2GOLAM KARIMIndian National Congress · INC15,85241.9%
- 3ARUN KUMAR NANDIIndependent · IND4,60412.2%
- 4HARIDAS SAHAHMS · HMS2780.7%
- 5SUNIL KUMAR CHATTERJEEIndependent · IND2570.7%
- 6ANIL DEYIndependent · IND1660.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- −19.7%
- CPI share
- 59.5% → 44.1%
- INC share
- 37.7% → 41.9%
- Turnout
- — → —