Constituency
223. Asansol
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-ASANSOL
CPI 43.7%won by 16.0%INC 27.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 16.0%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 39.4% to 43.7% of the vote here (+4.3%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.4% between them, down from 84.8% — 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
30,074
Margin
4,815
16.01%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPI- 1BIJOY PALCommunist Party of India · CPI13,14143.7%
- 2SIBDAS GHATAKIndian National Congress · INC8,32627.7%
- 3JAGADISH PANDEYIndependent · IND3,96713.2%
- 4S. SAJJAD HOSSAINSwarna Bharat Party · SBP2,4968.3%
- 5SANTIMOY AICHPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,6725.6%
- 6BALAI CHATTERJEEIndependent · IND4721.6%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +21.9%
- CPI share
- 39.4% → 43.7%
- INC share
- 45.4% → 27.7%
- Turnout
- — → —