1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election













West Bengal state assembly election, 1962







← 1957
May 8, 1962
1967 →


All 252 seats in the West Bengal state assembly















































 
First party
Second party
 


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Leader

Prafulla Chandra Sen

Jyoti Basu
Party

INC

CPI
Leader's seat

Arambagh East

Baranagar
Seats won
152
50
Seat change
+5
+4
Percentage
47.29%
24.96%
Swing
n/a
n/a








Chief Minister before election

Bidhan Chandra Roy
INC



Chief Minister

Bidhan Chandra Roy
INC






West Bengal, India


Legislative Assembly elections was 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

No. of candidates

No. of elected

No. of votes

%

Indian National Congress
252
157
4.522,476
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%
Independents
295
11
1,050,515
10.98%

Total:
935
252
10,469,803


[2]



Notes





  1. ^ M.V.S. Koteswara Rao. Communist Parties and United Front - Experience in Kerala and West Bengal. Hyderabad: Prajasakti Book House, 2003. p. 220.


  2. ^ Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1962 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF WEST BENGAL










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