Constituency
247. Suri
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-SURI
INC 51.5%won by 30.3%SUC 21.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 30.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 13.5% to 51.5% of the vote here (+38.0%).
- New challengerSUC (SUC) finished second with 21.1% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 72.6% of the vote between them, up from 55.7% — 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
36,472
Margin
11,065
30.34%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1BAIDYANATH BANERJEEIndian National Congress · INC18,76751.5%
- 2PRATIVA MUKHERJEESUC · SUC7,70221.1%
- 3MIHIR LAL CHATTERJEEPraja Socialist Party · PSP7,09719.5%
- 4BIJOYGOPAL CHANDRASwatantra Party · SWA1,8305.0%
- 5SUDHIR KUMAR GHOSHRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP1,0763.0%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SUC swing
- +16.8%
- INC share
- 13.5% → 51.5%
- SUC share
- 0.0% → 21.1%
- Turnout
- — → —