Constituency
138. Howrah West
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-HOWRAH-WEST
IND 44.6%won by 5.9%INC 38.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 5.9%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 20.0% to 44.6% of the vote here (+24.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 83.3% of the vote between them, up from 76.4% — 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
44,336
Margin
2,597
5.86%
Candidates
3 contested · winner IND- 1ANADI DASSIndependent · IND19,77044.6%
- 2BANKIM CHANDRA KARIndian National Congress · INC17,17338.7%
- 3DANU BOSEIndependent · IND7,39316.7%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–INC swing
- +25.0%
- IND share
- 20.0% → 44.6%
- INC share
- 39.2% → 38.7%
- Turnout
- — → —