Constituency
216. Patrasayer
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-PATRASAYER
INC 57.2%won by 14.4%CPI 42.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.2% to 14.4%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Communist Party of India (CPI).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 52.0% — 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
30,659
Margin
4,403
14.36%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1GURU PADA KHANIndian National Congress · INC17,53157.2%
- 2KAMLA KANTA BAGDICommunist Party of India · CPI13,12842.8%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- +11.8%
- INC share
- 26.6% → 57.2%
- CPI share
- 24.0% → 42.8%
- Turnout
- — → —