Constituency
468. Barasat
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-BARASAT
INC 50.2%won by 12.5%CPI 37.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.2% to 12.5%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.9% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,47,008
Turnout
58.0%
Valid votes
3,75,544
Margin
46,803
12.46%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1ARUN CHANDRA GUHAIndian National Congress · INC1,88,39850.2%
- 2BHOWANI SANKAR SENGUPTACommunist Party of India · CPI1,41,59537.7%
- 3VIBEKANANDA BISWASIndependent · IND45,55112.1%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- +10.3%
- INC share
- 51.1% → 50.2%
- CPI share
- 48.9% → 37.7%
- Turnout
- 56.6% → 58.0%