Constituency
154. Howrah South
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1967
WB-HOWRAH-SOUTH
INC 54.1%won by 19.8%CPM 34.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: FB (FB) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 19.8%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 42.0% to 54.1% of the vote here (+12.1%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 34.3% — it did not contest here in 1962.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.4% between them, down from 93.7% — 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
53,792
Margin
10,674
19.84%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1B . K . BHATTACHARJAIndian National Congress · INC29,10654.1%
- 2N . D . GUPTACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM18,43234.3%
- 3R . SENCommunist Party of India · CPI5,47010.2%
- 4R . MITRAIndependent · IND7841.5%
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–CPM swing
- −22.2%
- INC share
- 42.0% → 54.1%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 34.3%
- Turnout
- — → —