Constituency
180. Contai South
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-CONTAI-SOUTH
PSP 51.1%won by 2.1%INC 48.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Praja Socialist Party (PSP), which now leads by 2.1%.
- PSP vote sharePSP went from 45.4% to 51.1% of the vote here (+5.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 93.5% — 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
44,194
Margin
936
2.12%
Candidates
2 contested · winner PSP- 1SUDHIR CHANDRA DASPraja Socialist Party · PSP22,56551.1%
- 2RASH BIHARI PALIndian National Congress · INC21,62948.9%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- PSPflipped
- PSP–INC swing
- +4.8%
- PSP share
- 45.4% → 51.1%
- INC share
- 48.1% → 48.9%
- Turnout
- — → —