Constituency
151. Jangipara
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-JANGIPARA
INC 47.5%won by 4.4%CPI 43.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.9% to 4.4%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Communist Party of India (CPI).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.6% of the vote between them, up from 48.8% — 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
35,616
Margin
1,557
4.37%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1BISWANATH SAHAIndian National Congress · INC16,90547.5%
- 2MAHADEB SABUICommunist Party of India · CPI15,34843.1%
- 3GANESH CHANDRA PANDITIndependent · IND2,1466.0%
- 4SAMIR BISWASPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,2173.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- +0.7%
- INC share
- 25.3% → 47.5%
- CPI share
- 21.7% → 43.1%
- Turnout
- — → —