Constituency
167. Ghatal
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-GHATAL
CPI 58.9%won by 17.7%INC 41.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 17.7%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 22.3% to 58.9% of the vote here (+36.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 55.1% — 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
41,522
Margin
7,370
17.75%
Candidates
2 contested · winner CPI- 1NAGEN DOLAICommunist Party of India · CPI24,44658.9%
- 2HARENDRA NATH DOLUIIndian National Congress · INC17,07641.1%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +25.5%
- CPI share
- 22.3% → 58.9%
- INC share
- 30.1% → 41.1%
- Turnout
- — → —