Constituency
16. Balurghat
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-BALURGHAT
IND 23.2%won by 2.0%INC 21.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 2.0%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 7.3% to 23.2% of the vote here (+16.0%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 44.4% between them, down from 59.2% — 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
1,05,041
Margin
2,091
1.99%
Candidates
9 contested · winner IND- 1DHIRENDRA NATH BANERJEEIndependent · IND24,38723.2%
- 2MARDI HAKAI (ST)Indian National Congress · INC22,29621.2%
- 3SAROJ RANJAN CHATTERJEEIndian National Congress · INC21,31420.3%
- 4NATHANIEL MURMU (ST)Independent · IND20,43419.5%
- 5PRAVASH CHANDRA LAHAIndependent · IND5,0704.8%
- 6ABINASH CHANDRA BASUIndependent · IND3,9773.8%
- 7SANCHA NATH SARKAR (ST)Independent · IND3,1083.0%
- 8PRAMATHA NATH NEOGIIndependent · IND2,7342.6%
- 9BAJI NATH BASKE (ST)Independent · IND1,7211.6%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–INC swing
- +26.0%
- IND share
- 7.3% → 23.2%
- INC share
- 31.2% → 21.2%
- Turnout
- — → —