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Structure of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly after the election | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Legislative Assembly elections were held in the Indian state of West Bengal in 1962.
Parties
Ahead of the polls, the Communist Party of India, the All India Forward Bloc, the Marxist Forward Bloc, the Revolutionary Communist Party of India, the Bolshevik Party of India and the Revolutionary Socialist Party had formed the electoral alliance United Left Front.[1]
Results
Party | Candidates | Seats | Votes | Vote % | |||||
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Indian National Congress | 252 | 157 | 45,22,476 | 47.29% | |||||
Communist Party of India | 145 | 50 | 2,386,834 | 24.96% | |||||
Praja Socialist Party | 87 | 5 | 477,254 | 4.99% | |||||
All India Forward Bloc | 34 | 13 | 441,098 | 4.06% | |||||
Revolutionary Socialist Party | 17 | 9 | 245,261 | 2.56% | |||||
Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha | 25 | 0 | 76,138 | 0.80% | |||||
Socialist Unity Centre of India | 11 | 0 | 69,844 | 0.73% | |||||
Lok Sewak Sangh | 11 | 4 | 68,583 | 0.72% | |||||
Sanjukta Biplabi Parisha | 16 | 1 | 58,806 | 0.62% | |||||
Swatantra Party | 24 | 0 | 55,447 | 0.58% | |||||
Bharatiya Jana Sangh | 25 | 0 | 43,483 | 0.45% | |||||
All India Gorkha League | 4 | 2 | 38,076 | 0.40% | |||||
Workers Party of India | 8 | 0 | 26,913 | 0.24% | |||||
Socialist Party | 7 | 0 | 2,663 | 0.03% | |||||
Independent | 295 | 11 | 1,050,515 | 10.98% | |||||
Total | 935 | 252 | 10,469,803 | - |
Elected members
Constituency | Reserved for (SC/ST/None) |
Member | Party | |
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Makliganj | None | Amarendra Nath Roy Prohan | All India Forward Bloc | |
Mathabhanga | SC | Mahendra Nath Dakua | Indian National Congress | |
Sital Kuchi | SC | Bejoy Kumar Roy | All India Forward Bloc | |
Dinhata | None | Kamal Kanti Guha | All India Forward Bloc | |
Cooch Behar South | SC | Sunil Basunia | All India Forward Bloc | |
Cooch Behar North | None | Sunil Das Gupta | All India Forward Bloc | |
Tufanganj | None | Jiban Krishna Dey | Communist Party of India | |
Alipur Duars | None | Pijush Kanti Mukherjee | Indian National Congress | |
Kalchini | None | Nani Bhattacharjee | Revolutionary Socialist Party | |
Madarihat | ST | A. H. Beshterwitch | Revolutionary Socialist Party | |
Falakata | None | Hiralal Singha | Indian National Congress | |
Mainaguri | SC | Kamini Mohan Roy | Indian National Congress | |
Kharia | SC | Bhupendra Deb Raikut | Indian National Congress | |
Jalpaiguri | None | Khagendra Nath Das Gupta | Indian National Congress | |
Nagrakata | ST | Budhu Bhagat | Indian National Congress | |
Mal | None | Barendra Krishna Bhowmik | Indian National Congress | |
Kalimpong | None | Lakshmi Ranjan Josse | All India Gorkha League | |
Darjeeling | None | Deo Prakash Rai | All India Gorkha League | |
Jore Bungalow | None | Bhadra Bahadur Hamal | Communist Party of India | |
Siliguri | None | Jagadish Chandra Bhattacharjee | Indian National Congress | |
Phansidewa | ST | Tenzing Wangdi | Indian National Congress | |
Chopra | None | Mohammad Afaque Choudhury | Indian National Congress | |
Goalpokhar | None | Mohammad Hayat Ali | Praja Socialist Party | |
Karandighi | None | Phanis Chandra Sinha | Indian National Congress | |
Raiganj | None | Ramendra Nath Dutta | Indian National Congress | |
Kaliaganj | SC | Syama Prasad Barman | Indian National Congress | |
Kushmandi | None | Khalil Sayed | Communist Party of India | |
Gangarampur | ST | Mangla Kisku | Communist Party of India | |
Balurghat | None | Susil Ranjan Chattopadhyay | Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=1962_West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly_election |