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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Infobox election<br />
| election_name = 1962 West Bengal state assembly election<br />
| country = India<br />
| type = parliamentary<br />
| ongoing = no<br />
| previous_election = 1957 West Bengal state assembly election<br />
| previous_year = 1957<br />
| next_election = 1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election<br />
| next_year = 1967<br />
| election_date = May 8, 1962<br />
| seats_for_election = All 252 seats in the [[West Bengal state assembly]]<br />
| image1 = <br />
| leader1 = [[Prafulla Chandra Sen]]<br />
| party1 = Indian National Congress<br />
| alliance1 = <br />
| leaders_seat1 = [[Arambagh East (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Arambagh East]]<br />
| seats1 = 157<br />
| seat_change1 = {{increase}}5<br />
| popular_vote1 = <br />
| percentage1 = 47.29%<br />
| swing1 = {{increase}}1.15%<br />
| image2 = [[File:Jyoti Basu - Calcutta 1996-12-21 089 Cropped.png|100x100px]]<br />
| leader2 = [[Jyoti Basu]]<br />
| leaders_seat2 = [[Baranagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Baranagar]]<br />
| party2 = Communist Party of India<br />
| seats2 = 50<br />
| seat_change2 = {{increase}}4<br />
| popular_vote2 = <br />
| percentage2 = 24.96%<br />
| swing2 = {{loss}}8.64%<br />
| map_image = <br />
| map_size = <br />
| map_caption = <br />
| title = [[Chief Minister of West Bengal|Chief Minister]]<br />
| posttitle = [[Chief Minister of West Bengal|Chief Minister]]<br />
| before_election = [[Bidhan Chandra Roy]]<br />
| before_party = Indian National Congress<br />
| after_election = [[Prafulla Chandra Sen]]<br />
| after_party = Indian National Congress<br />
| majority_seats = 127<br />
}}<br />
[[Image:1957WestBengal.PNG|right|250px|thumb|West Bengal, India]]<br />
'''Legislative Assembly elections''' was held in the [[India]]n state of [[West Bengal]] in 1962.<br />
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==Parties==<br />
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 (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party]] had formed the electoral alliance [[United Left Front (1962)|United Left Front]].<ref>M.V.S. Koteswara Rao. ''Communist Parties and United Front - Experience in Kerala and West Bengal''. [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]]: Prajasakti Book House, 2003. p. 220.</ref><br />
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==Results==<br />
{|class="wikitable sortable"<br />
| '''Party'''<br />
| '''No. of candidates'''<br />
| '''No. of elected'''<br />
| '''No. of votes'''<br />
| '''%'''<br />
|-<br />
| [[Indian National Congress]]<br />
| 252<br />
| 157<br />
| 4.522,476<br />
| 47.29%<br />
|-<br />
| [[Communist Party of India]]<br />
| 145<br />
| 50<br />
| 2,386,834<br />
| 24.96%<br />
|-<br />
| [[Praja Socialist Party]]<br />
| 87<br />
| 5<br />
| 477,254<br />
| 4.99%<br />
|-<br />
| [[All India Forward Bloc]]<br />
| 34<br />
| 13<br />
| 441,098<br />
| 4.06%<br />
|-<br />
| [[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party]]<br />
|17<br />
|9<br />
|245,261<br />
|2.56%<br />
|-<br />
| [[Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha]]<br />
| 25<br />
| 0<br />
| 76,138<br />
| 0.80%<br />
|-<br />
| [[Socialist Unity Centre of India]]<br />
|11<br />
|0<br />
|69,844<br />
|0.73%<br />
|-<br />
| [[Lok Sewak Sangh]]<br />
|11<br />
|4<br />
|68,583<br />
|0.72%<br />
|-<br />
| [[Sanjukta Biplabi Parisha]]<br />
|16<br />
|1<br />
|58,806<br />
|0.62%<br />
|-<br />
| [[Swatantra Party]]<br />
|24<br />
|0<br />
|55,447<br />
|0.58%<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bharatiya Jana Sangh]]<br />
| 25<br />
| 0<br />
| 43,483<br />
| 0.45%<br />
|-<br />
| [[All India Gorkha League]]<br />
|4<br />
|2<br />
|38,076<br />
|0.40%<br />
|-<br />
| [[Workers Party of India]]<br />
|8<br />
|0<br />
|26,913<br />
|0.24%<br />
|-<br />
| [[Socialist Party (India)|Socialist Party]]<br />
|7<br />
|0<br />
|2,663<br />
|0.03%<br />
|-<br />
| Independents<br />
| 295<br />
| 11<br />
| 1,050,515<br />
| 10.98%<br />
|-<br />
| '''Total:'''<br />
| 935<br />
| 252<br />
| 10,469,803<br />
|<br />
|}<br />
<ref name=s1962>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_WB_1962.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1962 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF WEST BENGAL]''</ref><br />
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==Notes==<br />
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