Constituency
219. Bankura
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-BANKURA
CPI 34.9%won by 1.7%INC 33.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 1.7%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 12.8% to 34.9% of the vote here (+22.1%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 68.1% of the vote between them, up from 42.9% — 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
34,580
Margin
577
1.67%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1ABONI BHATTACHARYYACommunist Party of India · CPI12,06934.9%
- 2ANATH BANDHU ROYIndian National Congress · INC11,49233.2%
- 3RAKHAHARI CHATTOPADHYAYHMS · HMS11,01931.9%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +12.4%
- CPI share
- 12.8% → 34.9%
- INC share
- 23.5% → 33.2%
- Turnout
- — → —