Constituency
198. Contai North
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1967
WB-CONTAI-NORTH
INC 44.5%won by 2.1%PSP 42.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 27.1% to 2.1%.
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 9.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (CPI) to Praja Socialist Party (PSP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.0% of the vote between them, up from 81.1% — 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
50,363
Margin
1,033
2.05%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1M . L . DASIndian National Congress · INC22,41944.5%
- 2S . G . GUCHHAITPraja Socialist Party · PSP21,38642.5%
- 3A . MISHRACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM6,55813.0%
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–PSP swing
- −33.1%
- INC share
- 54.1% → 44.5%
- PSP share
- 18.9% → 42.5%
- Turnout
- — → —