Constituency
197. Binpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-BINPUR
INC 48.7%won by 26.1%CPI 22.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 26.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 15.7% to 48.7% of the vote here (+33.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 71.4% of the vote between them, up from 33.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
21,859
Margin
5,699
26.07%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1MANGAL CHANDRA SARENIndian National Congress · INC10,65048.7%
- 2JOYRAM SARENCommunist Party of India · CPI4,95122.6%
- 3GURAI SINGPraja Socialist Party · PSP3,62416.6%
- 4SHYAM CHARAN MURMUIndependent · IND1,5697.2%
- 5NEMAI SARENHMS · HMS1,0654.9%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- +28.5%
- INC share
- 15.7% → 48.7%
- CPI share
- 18.2% → 22.6%
- Turnout
- — → —