Constituency
251. Nalhati
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-NALHATI
INC 42.5%won by 14.5%PSP 28.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.9% to 14.5%.
- New challengerPraja Socialist Party (PSP) finished second with 28.0% — it polled just 1.3% in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 70.4% of the vote between them, up from 40.4% — 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
23,190
Margin
3,370
14.53%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1SHIROMANI PRASADIndian National Congress · INC9,85242.5%
- 2MAHIMA RANJAN HURYPraja Socialist Party · PSP6,48228.0%
- 3TRILOCHAN MALIndependent · IND5,21222.5%
- 4KRISHNA KUMAR MALSwarna Bharat Party · SBP1,3515.8%
- 5MANMATHA NATH DASHMS · HMS2931.3%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–PSP swing
- −6.8%
- INC share
- 22.6% → 42.5%
- PSP share
- 1.3% → 28.0%
- Turnout
- — → —