Constituency
231. Galsi
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-GALSI
INC 54.9%won by 9.9%FB 45.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 9.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 20.5% to 54.9% of the vote here (+34.5%).
- New challengerFB (FB) finished second with 45.1% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 48.9% — 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
28,374
Margin
2,808
9.90%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1KANAI LAL DASIndian National Congress · INC15,59154.9%
- 2PRAMATHA NATH DHIBARFB · FB12,78345.1%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–FB swing
- −10.6%
- INC share
- 20.5% → 54.9%
- FB share
- 0.0% → 45.1%
- Turnout
- — → —