Constituency
6. Cooch Behar North
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1967
WB-COOCH-BEHAR-NORTH
INC 37.7%won by 4.6%FBL 33.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: FB (FB) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 4.6%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- New challengerFBL (FBL) finished second with 33.1% — it did not contest here in 1962.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.8% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
46,227
Margin
2,147
4.64%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1M.R.TARIndian National Congress · INC17,44037.7%
- 2S.D.GUPTAFBL · FBL15,29333.1%
- 3G.C.SAHACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM8,94019.3%
- 4N.C.GHOSHSwatantra Party · SWA4,5549.9%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- FB
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–FBL swing
- −32.4%
- INC share
- 37.1% → 37.7%
- FBL share
- 0.0% → 33.1%
- Turnout
- — → —