Constituency
237. Kalna
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-KALNA
CPI 53.4%won by 8.3%INC 45.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.7% to 8.3%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (CPI) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.5% of the vote between them, up from 51.2% — 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
44,836
Margin
3,702
8.26%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPISince 1957
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- +3.5%
- CPI share
- 26.0% → 53.4%
- INC share
- 21.2% → 45.1%
- Turnout
- — → —