Constituency
144. Sankrail
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-SANKRAIL
CPI 50.4%won by 2.2%INC 48.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 1.9% to 2.2%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from FBM (FBM) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.5% of the vote between them, up from 56.8% — 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
38,825
Margin
853
2.20%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPISince 1957
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- −12.5%
- CPI share
- 29.4% → 50.4%
- INC share
- 14.7% → 48.2%
- Turnout
- — → —