Constituency
481. Hooghly
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-HOOGHLY
CPI 34.6%won by 0.8%INC 33.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 1.3% to 0.8%.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 3.4% to 61.1%.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 2,643 votes (0.85%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- 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
5,11,620
Turnout
61.1%
Valid votes
3,12,754
Margin
2,643
0.85%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1PROVAT KARCommunist Party of India · CPI1,08,35934.6%
- 2NIRMAL KUMAR SENIndian National Congress · INC1,05,71633.8%
- 3NIRMAL CH. CHATTERJEEIndependent · IND98,67931.6%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- −0.4%
- CPI share
- 35.0% → 34.6%
- INC share
- 33.7% → 33.8%
- Turnout
- 57.7% → 61.1%