Constituency
484. Contai
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-CONTAI
INC 58.1%won by 26.4%PSP 31.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 26.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 47.7% to 58.1% of the vote here (+10.4%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 89.7% between them, down from 96.9% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,13,853
Turnout
62.9%
Valid votes
3,23,033
Margin
85,408
26.44%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1BASANTA KUMAR DASIndian National Congress · INC1,87,54858.1%
- 2PRAFULLA CHANDRA GHOSHPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,02,14031.6%
- 3PULIN SENIndependent · IND33,34510.3%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–PSP swing
- +28.0%
- INC share
- 47.7% → 58.1%
- PSP share
- 49.3% → 31.6%
- Turnout
- 61.5% → 62.9%