Constituency
133. Bowbazar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1967
WB-BOWBAZAR
INC 57.5%won by 37.8%FBL 19.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 19.3% to 37.8%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- New challengerFBL (FBL) finished second with 19.8% — it did not contest here in 1962.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.3% between them, down from 97.9% — 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
42,935
Margin
16,217
37.77%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1B.S.NAHARIndian National Congress · INC24,69957.5%
- 2S.GUPTAFBL · FBL8,48219.8%
- 3H.CHATTRJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM6,08914.2%
- 4S.GUHABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS3,4688.1%
- 5A.WAHABIndependent · IND1970.5%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–FBL swing
- −20.8%
- INC share
- 58.6% → 57.5%
- FBL share
- 0.0% → 19.8%
- Turnout
- — → —