Constituency
461. Darjeeling
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-DARJEELING
INC 35.0%won by 4.5%CPI 30.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.6% to 4.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.6% between them, down from 78.9% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 3.1% to 44.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,21,110
Turnout
44.8%
Valid votes
1,88,758
Margin
8,427
4.46%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1T. MANAENIndian National Congress · INC66,12935.0%
- 2RATAN LAL BRAHMANCommunist Party of India · CPI57,70230.6%
- 3CHANDRA KANTA TAMANGGL · GL46,12724.4%
- 4BIRAJA MOHAN BHATTACHARJEEJS · JS11,7306.2%
- 5RAMNATH DUBEYIndependent · IND7,0703.7%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −3.2%
- INC share
- 43.3% → 35.0%
- CPI share
- 35.6% → 30.6%
- Turnout
- 41.7% → 44.8%