Constituency
131. Burtola South
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-BURTOLA-SOUTH
CPI 53.8%won by 7.5%INC 46.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 7.5%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 0.0% to 53.8% of the vote here (+53.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 83.9% — 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
38,076
Margin
2,856
7.50%
Candidates
2 contested · winner CPI- 1AMARENDRA NATH BASUCommunist Party of India · CPI20,46653.8%
- 2SUHRID RUDRAIndian National Congress · INC17,61046.2%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +44.9%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 53.8%
- INC share
- 37.4% → 46.2%
- Turnout
- — → —