Constituency
7. Cooch Behar South
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1967
WB-COOCH-BEHAR-SOUTH
INC 42.7%won by 10.3%FBL 32.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: FB (FB) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 10.3%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 34.7% to 42.7% of the vote here (+8.0%).
- New challengerFBL (FBL) finished second with 32.4% — it did not contest here in 1962.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.1% between them, down from 93.2% — 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
45,597
Margin
4,707
10.32%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1S.K.ROYIndian National Congress · INC19,47942.7%
- 2D.C.NEOGIFBL · FBL14,77232.4%
- 3S.N.CHOUDHURYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM5,90312.9%
- 4P.N.KUMARSwatantra Party · SWA3,9778.7%
- 5M.M.HOSSAINIndependent · IND7891.7%
- 6J.K.DEYIndependent · IND6771.5%
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
- −24.4%
- INC share
- 34.7% → 42.7%
- FBL share
- 0.0% → 32.4%
- Turnout
- — → —