Constituency
26. Goal Pokhar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1967
WB-GOAL-POKHAR
PSP 36.5%won by 5.2%SSP 31.3%
What changed here
DerivedPraja Socialist Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.1% to 5.2%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerSamyukta Socialist Party (SSP) finished second with 31.3% — it did not contest here in 1962.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.8% between them, down from 76.9% — 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
25,545
Margin
1,335
5.23%
Candidates
6 contested · winner PSP- 1M.SALIMUDDINPraja Socialist Party · PSP9,33136.5%
- 2M.B.SARSHAARSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP7,99631.3%
- 3M.H.ALIIndian National Congress · INC3,55913.9%
- 4C.M.SINGHAFBL · FBL2,93811.5%
- 5M.MOZAMMILIndependent · IND1,1744.6%
- 6S.PAZISwatantra Party · SWA5472.1%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- PSP
- PSP–SSP swing
- −36.8%
- PSP share
- 42.0% → 36.5%
- SSP share
- 0.0% → 31.3%
- Turnout
- — → —