Constituency
20. Kalimpong
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1967
WB-KALIMPONG
INC 50.7%won by 10.2%IND 40.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: GL (GL) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 10.2%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 32.8% to 50.7% of the vote here (+17.8%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.1% of the vote between them, up from 85.8% — 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
29,652
Margin
3,038
10.25%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1K.B.GURUNGIndian National Congress · INC15,02350.7%
- 2R.DAHALIndependent · IND11,98540.4%
- 3B.B.HAMALCommunist Party of India · CPI1,4705.0%
- 4T.PRASADBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,1744.0%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- GL
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- −19.6%
- INC share
- 32.8% → 50.7%
- IND share
- 2.9% → 40.4%
- Turnout
- — → —