Constituency
55. Dibrugarh
Community mirrorAssam · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-DIBRUGARH
INC 57.0%won by 32.9%SOC 24.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 50.6% to 32.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerSOC (SOC) finished second with 24.2% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.2% between them, down from 88.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 4.6% to 44.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,90,564
Turnout
44.3%
Valid votes
1,72,985
Margin
56,830
32.85%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1JOGENDRA NATH HAZARIKAIndian National Congress · INC98,68757.0%
- 2AJIT KUMAR SARMASOC · SOC41,85724.2%
- 3ROHIT CHANDRA BHATACHARYYACommunist Party of India · CPI32,44118.8%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SOC swing
- −36.5%
- INC share
- 69.3% → 57.0%
- SOC share
- 0.0% → 24.2%
- Turnout
- 39.6% → 44.3%