Constituency
44. Cachar
Community mirrorAssam · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-CACHAR
INC 36.8%won by 8.4%IND 28.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.7% to 8.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 19.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.1% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.7% to 51.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,83,045
Turnout
51.2%
Valid votes
1,96,100
Margin
16,440
8.38%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1JYOTSNA CHANDAIndian National Congress · INC72,08636.8%
- 2SENAIndependent · IND55,64628.4%
- 3DHIRENDRA MOHON DEBIndependent · IND52,70026.9%
- 4DESHA RANJAN NATHPraja Socialist Party · PSP15,6688.0%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −3.3%
- INC share
- 55.9% → 36.8%
- IND share
- 44.1% → 28.4%
- Turnout
- 53.9% → 51.2%