Constituency
243. Labhpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-LABHPUR
CPI 37.7%won by 4.6%IND 33.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.8% to 4.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 33.1% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.9% between them, down from 92.4% — 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
38,607
Margin
1,776
4.60%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPISince 1957
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–IND swing
- −42.5%
- CPI share
- 47.1% → 37.7%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 33.1%
- Turnout
- — → —