Constituency
179. Contai North
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-CONTAI-NORTH
INC 54.1%won by 27.1%CPI 27.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 27.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 49.9% to 54.1% of the vote here (+4.1%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 27.0% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.1% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
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
44,397
Margin
12,013
27.06%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INCSince 1957
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- −22.9%
- INC share
- 49.9% → 54.1%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 27.0%
- Turnout
- — → —