Constituency
470. Basirhat
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-BASIRHAT
INC 53.7%won by 17.3%CPI 36.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.3% to 17.3%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.1% of the vote between them, up from 45.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 35.8% to 59.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,19,902
Turnout
59.9%
Valid votes
3,11,635
Margin
54,059
17.35%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1HUMAYUN KABIRIndian National Congress · INC1,67,47653.7%
- 2ABDUR RAZZAK KHANCommunist Party of India · CPI1,13,41736.4%
- 3DEVAPROSAD GHOSHJS · JS30,7429.9%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- +15.0%
- INC share
- 24.1% → 53.7%
- CPI share
- 21.8% → 36.4%
- Turnout
- 95.7% → 59.9%