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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1962 West Bengal state assembly election
| country = India
| type = parliamentary
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 1957 West Bengal state assembly election
| previous_year = 1957
| next_election = 1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
| next_year = 1967
| election_date = May 8, 1962
| seats_for_election = All 252 seats in the [[West Bengal state assembly]]
| image1 =
| leader1 = [[Prafulla Chandra Sen]]
| party1 = Indian National Congress
| alliance1 =
| leaders_seat1 = [[Arambagh East (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Arambagh East]]
| seats1 = 157
| seat_change1 = {{increase}}5
| popular_vote1 =
| percentage1 = 47.29%
| swing1 = {{increase}}1.15%
| image2 = [[File:Jyoti Basu - Calcutta 1996-12-21 089 Cropped.png|100x100px]]
| leader2 = [[Jyoti Basu]]
| leaders_seat2 = [[Baranagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Baranagar]]
| party2 = Communist Party of India
| seats2 = 50
| seat_change2 = {{increase}}4
| popular_vote2 =
| percentage2 = 24.96%
| swing2 = {{loss}}8.64%
| map_image =
| map_size =
| map_caption =
| title = [[Chief Minister of West Bengal|Chief Minister]]
| posttitle = [[Chief Minister of West Bengal|Chief Minister]]
| before_election = [[Bidhan Chandra Roy]]
| before_party = Indian National Congress
| after_election = [[Prafulla Chandra Sen]]
| after_party = Indian National Congress
| majority_seats = 127
}}
[[Image:1957WestBengal.PNG|right|250px|thumb|West Bengal, India]]
'''Legislative Assembly elections''' was held in the [[India]]n 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 (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>

==Results==
{|class="wikitable sortable"
| '''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 (India)|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 (India)|Socialist Party]]
|7
|0
|2,663
|0.03%
|-
| Independents
| 295
| 11
| 1,050,515
| 10.98%
|-
| '''Total:'''
| 935
| 252
| 10,469,803
|
|}
<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>

==Notes==
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[[Category:1960s in West Bengal]]
[[Category:1962 in India]]
[[Category:1962 State Assembly elections in India]]

1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election - Revision history

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