Constituency
204. Purulia
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-PURULIA
INC 46.2%won by 13.2%LSS 33.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 13.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 14.5% to 46.2% of the vote here (+31.6%).
- New challengerLSS (LSS) finished second with 33.0% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 79.1% of the vote between them, up from 46.3% — 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
29,424
Margin
3,889
13.22%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1TARA PADA ROYIndian National Congress · INC13,58846.2%
- 2BIBHUTI BHUSHAN DAS GUPTALSS · LSS9,69933.0%
- 3AMULYA KARMAKARCommunist Party of India · CPI5,40518.4%
- 4ANANDA THAKURIndependent · IND4881.7%
- 5SASHI BHUSHAN SINGHIndependent · IND2440.8%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–LSS swing
- −1.3%
- INC share
- 14.5% → 46.2%
- LSS share
- 0.0% → 33.0%
- Turnout
- — → —