Constituency
222. Hirapur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-HIRAPUR
INC 49.8%won by 14.2%CPI 35.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 14.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 35.4% to 49.8% of the vote here (+14.4%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 35.6% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.4% between them, down from 90.6% — the field split more ways.
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
27,692
Margin
3,925
14.17%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INCSince 1957
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- −21.3%
- INC share
- 35.4% → 49.8%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 35.6%
- Turnout
- — → —