Constituency
202. Jhalda
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-JHALDA
INC 51.8%won by 30.8%IND 21.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 13.2% to 30.8%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.8% between them, down from 84.8% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered4 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
29,759
Margin
9,180
30.85%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1DEBENDRA NATH MAHATOIndian National Congress · INC15,41851.8%
- 2KESHAV CHANDRA MAHATAIndependent · IND6,23821.0%
- 3AMARESH GUPTACommunist Party of India · CPI4,97316.7%
- 4BIBHUTI BHUSAN MURAIndependent · IND1,7205.8%
- 5HEM CHANDRA MAHATALSS · LSS1,4104.7%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +17.7%
- INC share
- 49.0% → 51.8%
- IND share
- 35.8% → 21.0%
- Turnout
- — → —