Constituency
168. Daspur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-DASPUR
CPI 52.4%won by 13.1%INC 39.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 13.1%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 37.3% to 52.4% of the vote here (+15.1%).
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
44,826
Margin
5,862
13.08%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPI- 1MRIGENDRA BHATTACHARIYYACommunist Party of India · CPI23,49352.4%
- 2BANKIM CHANDRA SASMALIndian National Congress · INC17,63139.3%
- 3BATA KRISHNA BARMANHMS · HMS2,6485.9%
- 4NETAI CHANDRA JANASwarna Bharat Party · SBP1,0542.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +32.8%
- CPI share
- 37.3% → 52.4%
- INC share
- 57.0% → 39.3%
- Turnout
- — → —