Constituency
215. Kotulpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-KOTULPUR
INC 79.2%won by 63.8%IND 15.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 64.6% to 63.8%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from HMS (HMS) to Independent (IND).
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 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
30,736
Margin
19,601
63.77%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1JAGANNATH KOLAYIndian National Congress · INC24,33779.2%
- 2EUNASIndependent · IND4,73615.4%
- 3MATHURA NATH SENHMS · HMS1,6635.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −9.2%
- INC share
- 79.2% → 79.2%
- IND share
- 6.2% → 15.4%
- Turnout
- — → —