Constituency
2. Darjeeling
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-DARJEELING
IND 33.3%won by 1.1%CPI 32.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 22.0% to 1.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 14.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Communist Party of India (CPI).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.5% between them, down from 74.1% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
13,212
Margin
144
1.09%
Candidates
6 contested · winner IND- 1DEO PRAKASH RAIIndependent · IND4,40033.3%
- 2ANANDA PRASADCommunist Party of India · CPI4,25632.2%
- 3DALBAHADUR SINGH GAHATRAJIndian National Congress · INC2,83621.5%
- 4MAHANANDA SUBBAIndependent · IND7735.9%
- 5P. P. PRADHANIndependent · IND5444.1%
- 6DEBAHADURIndependent · IND4033.1%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–CPI swing
- −21.1%
- IND share
- 48.0% → 33.3%
- CPI share
- 25.9% → 32.2%
- Turnout
- — → —