Constituency
78. Baranagar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-BARANAGAR
CPI 57.0%won by 18.7%INC 38.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.7% to 18.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
71,671
Margin
13,412
18.71%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPI- 1JYOTI BASUCommunist Party of India · CPI40,83057.0%
- 2DHIRENDRA NATH CHATTOPADHYAYIndian National Congress · INC27,41838.3%
- 3KAMAKHYA KUMAR GUHAJS · JS1,4852.1%
- 4BIJOY RATNA SEN SHARMAPraja Socialist Party · PSP9741.4%
- 5SANKAR GHOSHHMS · HMS4900.7%
- 6SANNYASI CHARAN NATHSwatantra Party · SWA3070.4%
- 7MOHINI MOHAN BANDOPADHYAYIndependent · IND1670.2%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- −1.0%
- CPI share
- 59.2% → 57.0%
- INC share
- 39.5% → 38.3%
- Turnout
- — → —