Constituency
156. Singur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-SINGUR
INC 50.0%won by 0.1%CPI 50.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 6.6% to 0.1%.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 31 votes (0.05%) — among the closest results anywhere.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
57,675
Margin
31
0.05%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1PROBHAKAR PALIndian National Congress · INC28,85350.0%
- 2AJIT KUMAR BASUCommunist Party of India · CPI28,82250.0%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −6.5%
- INC share
- 52.5% → 50.0%
- CPI share
- 45.9% → 50.0%
- Turnout
- — → —