Constituency
12. Cooch Behar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-COOCH-BEHAR
INC 24.9%won by 1.4%INC 23.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 2.1% to 1.4%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 48.3% between them, down from 53.4% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered5 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
93,296
Margin
1,273
1.36%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1MAZIRUDDIN AHMEDIndian National Congress · INC23,18724.9%
- 2SATISH CHANDRA ROY SINGHA (SC)Indian National Congress · INC21,91423.5%
- 3DINESH CHANDRA KARJEE (SC)Communist Party of India · CPI18,78320.1%
- 4NARESH CHANDRA BOSEFBM · FBM17,23318.5%
- 5SONAMANI DEVI (SC)Independent · IND8,3168.9%
- 6SURENDRA NATH LAHIRIIndependent · IND3,8634.1%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–INC swing
- 0.0%
- INC share
- 27.8% → 24.9%
- INC share
- 27.8% → 24.9%
- Turnout
- — → —