1962
1957Total Constituencies: 36
West Bengal Lok Sabha Election 1962 covered all 36 parliamentary constituencies in the state. The INC received the highest statewide vote share at 46.79% and won 22 seats, while the CPI received 29.38% of the vote and won 9 seats. The FB won 1 seats with 6.32% of the vote.
The table below shows party-wise results based on total votes received across West Bengal.
| Party Name | Seats Contested | Seats Won | Vote Share | Vote Share on Contested | Total Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36 | 22 | 46.79% | 46.79% | 45,53,677 | |
| 24 | 9 | 29.38% | 43.19% | 28,59,731 | |
| FB | 6 | 1 | 6.32% | 41.11% | 6,15,395 |
| IND | 13 | 2 | 6.06% | 16.77% | 5,89,761 |
| PSP | 12 | 0 | 4.54% | 14.79% | 4,41,656 |
| 2 | 1 | 2.59% | 45.86% | 2,52,340 |
| Constituency | Winner | Runner-up | Margin | Margin(%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Candidate | Party | Votes | |||
| Cooch Behar (Sc) | Debendra Nath Karjee | FB | 1,41,436 | Upendra Nath Barman | INC | 1,09,676 | 31,760 | 12.64 |
| Jalpaiguri | Nalini Ranjan Ghosh | INC | 1,17,814 | Saroj Kumar Chakrabarty | RSP | 93,221 | 24,593 | 9.48 |
| Darjeeling | T. Manaen | INC | 66,129 | Ratan Lal Brahman | CPI | 57,702 | 8,427 | 4.46 |
| Raiganj | Chapala Kanta Bhattacharjee | INC | 81,795 | Asoke Nath Sen | CPI | 52,392 | 29,403 | 15.28 |
| Balurghat (St) | Sarkar Murmu | CPI | 1,37,290 | Shelku Mardi | INC | 1,27,470 | 9,820 | 3.7 |
| Malda | Renuka Ray | INC | 1,01,336 | Haji Abdus Sattar | IND | 65,515 | 35,821 | 15.46 |
| Murshidabad | Syed Badrudduja | IND | 1,02,067 | Abdus Sattar | INC | 82,231 | 19,836 | 9.13 |
| Berhampur | Tridib Kumar Chaudhuri | RSP | 1,59,119 | Khondekar Nazrul Haque | INC | 1,31,630 | 27,489 | 9.46 |
| Nebadwip | Haripada Chattopadhyay | IND | 1,52,869 | Ila Pal Choudhuri | INC | 1,39,632 | 13,237 | 4.52 |
| Barasat | Arun Chandra Guha | INC | 1,88,398 | Bhowani Sankar Sengupta | CPI | 1,41,595 | 46,803 | 12.47 |
| Barrackpore | Renu Chakraborty | CPI | 2,28,318 | Ram Dhari Singh | INC | 1,33,894 | 94,424 | 23.8 |
| Basirhat | Humayun Kabir | INC | 1,67,476 | Abdur Razzak Khan | CPI | 1,13,417 | 54,059 | 17.35 |
| Joynagar (Sc) | Paresh Nath Kayal | INC | 1,52,372 | Sailendra Nath Haldar | CPI | 1,33,601 | 18,771 | 6.56 |
| Mathurapur (Sc) | Purnendu Sekhar Naskar | INC | 1,67,028 | Kansari Halder | CPI | 1,59,762 | 7,266 | 2.22 |
| Daimond Harbour | Sudhanshu Bhushan Das | INC | 1,52,540 | Kamal Kumar Basu | CPI | 1,33,400 | 19,140 | 5.97 |
| Calcutta South West | Indrajit Gupta | CPI | 1,43,918 | Ismail Ibrahim | INC | 1,32,928 | 10,990 | 3.82 |
| Calcutta East | Ranendra Nath Sen | CPI | 1,79,669 | Sailendra Nath Mukherjee | INC | 1,36,202 | 43,467 | 13.76 |
| Calcutta Central | Hirendra Nath Mukherjee | CPI | 1,54,772 | Balai Chandra Pal | INC | 1,11,082 | 43,690 | 16.44 |
| Calcutta North West | Asoke Kumar Sen | INC | 1,43,725 | Snehangshu Kanta Acharyya | CPI | 1,10,347 | 33,378 | 12.67 |
| Howrah | Mohammad Elias | CPI | 1,37,812 | Krishna Kumar Chatterji | INC | 1,33,876 | 3,936 | 1.21 |
| Uluberia | Punendu Khan | INC | 1,43,195 | Aurobindo Ghosal | FB | 1,32,220 | 10,975 | 3.73 |
| Serampore | Dinendra Nath Bhattacharya | CPI | 1,72,992 | Jitendra Nath Lahiri | INC | 1,62,130 | 10,862 | 3.24 |
| Hooghly | Provat Kar | CPI | 1,08,359 | Nirmal Kumar Sen | INC | 1,05,716 | 2,643 | 0.85 |
| Ghatal | Sachindra Nath Choudhury | INC | 1,79,045 | Manoranjan Roy | CPI | 1,48,207 | 30,838 | 9.23 |
| Tamluk | Satis Chandra Samanta | INC | 1,89,020 | Gobinda Chandra Bhowmick | FB | 1,52,399 | 36,621 | 10.34 |
| Contai | Basanta Kumar Das | INC | 1,87,548 | Prafulla Chandra Ghosh | PSP | 1,02,140 | 85,408 | 26.44 |
| Midnapur | Gobinda Kumar Singhu | INC | 1,31,291 | Soroj Roy | CPI | 93,872 | 37,419 | 14.09 |
| Jhargram (St) | Subodh Hansda | INC | 1,01,784 | Gopinath Saren | CPI | 56,425 | 45,359 | 21.77 |
| Purulia | Bhajahari Mahato | LSS | 68,295 | Sagar Chandra Mahato | INC | 60,882 | 7,413 | 4.54 |
| Vishnupur (Sc) | Pashupati Mandal | INC | 1,08,908 | Biswanath Bauri | CPI | 56,657 | 52,251 | 25.4 |
| Bankura | Ramgati Bandopadhyay | INC | 74,674 | Kanai Lal De | PSP | 47,230 | 27,444 | 18.79 |
| Asansol | Atulya Ghosh | INC | 70,835 | Ket Narayan Misra | CPI | 61,991 | 8,844 | 4.85 |
| Ausgram (Sc) | Mono Mohan Das | INC | 1,14,829 | Krishna Chandra Halder | CPI | 91,140 | 23,689 | 10.56 |
| Burdwan | Gurugobinda Basu | INC | 1,55,485 | Subiman Ghose | FB | 1,23,015 | 32,470 | 11.66 |
| Katwa | Saradish Roy | CPI | 1,51,794 | Anil Kumar Chanda | INC | 1,16,528 | 35,266 | 13.14 |
| Birbhum (Sc) | Sisir Kumar Saha | INC | 74,573 | Mrityunjay Mandal | FB | 42,169 | 32,404 | 18.75 |