Constituency
10. Alipur Duars
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-ALIPUR-DUARS
INC 49.2%won by 15.1%IND 34.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 39.8% to 15.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 17.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 34.2% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.4% between them, down from 93.6% — 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
32,919
Margin
4,964
15.08%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1PIJUSH KANTI MUKHERJEEIndian National Congress · INC16,20749.2%
- 2NANI BHATTACHARJAIndependent · IND11,24334.2%
- 3NILKANTHA ROYIndependent · IND4,43313.5%
- 4CHITTARANJAN BHATTACHARYAIndependent · IND1,0363.1%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −51.6%
- INC share
- 66.7% → 49.2%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 34.2%
- Turnout
- — → —