Constituency
459. Cooch Behar
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-COOCH-BEHAR
FB 56.3%won by 12.6%INC 43.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to FB (FB), which now leads by 12.6%.
- FB vote shareFB went from 0.0% to 56.3% of the vote here (+56.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 60.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 47.6% to 47.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,33,835
Turnout
47.0%
Valid votes
2,51,112
Margin
31,760
12.65%
Candidates
2 contested · winner FB- 1DEBENDRA NATH KARJEEFB · FB1,41,43656.3%
- 2UPENDRA NATH BARMANIndian National Congress · INC1,09,67643.7%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- FBflipped
- FB–INC swing
- +44.9%
- FB share
- 0.0% → 56.3%
- INC share
- 32.2% → 43.7%
- Turnout
- 94.7% → 47.0%