Constituency
5. Jalpaiguri
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-JALPAIGURI
INC 26.9%won by 0.5%INC 26.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 4.4% to 0.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 53.3% between them, down from 59.3% — 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
96,902
Margin
480
0.50%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1SAROJENDRA DEB RAIKUT (SC)Indian National Congress · INC26,05726.9%
- 2KHAGENDRA NATH DAS GUPTAIndian National Congress · INC25,57726.4%
- 3NARESH CH. CHAKRABORTYCommunist Party of India · CPI22,61323.3%
- 4HEREMBA DEB (SC)Praja Socialist Party · PSP16,21416.7%
- 5BHAGABAN SINGHA ROY (SC)Independent · IND3,3693.5%
- 6SATYENDRA NATH GHOSHIndependent · IND3,0723.2%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–INC swing
- 0.0%
- INC share
- 31.9% → 26.9%
- INC share
- 31.9% → 26.9%
- Turnout
- — → —