Constituency
259. Raina
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1967
WB-RAINA
PSP 37.9%won by 1.9%INC 36.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Praja Socialist Party (PSP), which now leads by 1.9%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- PSP vote sharePSP went from 30.5% to 37.9% of the vote here (+7.3%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.9% between them, down from 96.5% — 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
40,440
Margin
768
1.90%
Candidates
4 contested · winner PSP- 1D . TAHPraja Socialist Party · PSP15,32437.9%
- 2P . GUHAIndian National Congress · INC14,55636.0%
- 3G . ROYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM9,48123.4%
- 4A . K . ADHIKARYIndependent · IND1,0792.7%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- PSPflipped
- PSP–INC swing
- +37.4%
- PSP share
- 30.5% → 37.9%
- INC share
- 66.0% → 36.0%
- Turnout
- — → —