Constituency
17. Gangarampur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-GANGARAMPUR
INC 22.6%won by 3.3%INC 19.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 29.6% to 3.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 26.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 41.9% between them, down from 69.0% — 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
87,133
Margin
2,838
3.26%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1LAKSHAN CHANDRA HASDA (ST)Indian National Congress · INC19,68722.6%
- 2SATINDRA NATH BASUIndian National Congress · INC16,84919.3%
- 3MAJEDAR RAHAMANIndependent · IND13,29915.3%
- 4SOREN DEBI (ST)Independent · IND12,17314.0%
- 5NITYA KRISHNA BHATTACHARJEEPraja Socialist Party · PSP11,38013.1%
- 6AJIT ROYIndependent · IND4,7015.4%
- 7SREEKANTA ROYIndependent · IND4,3295.0%
- 8UPENDRA NATH DASIndependent · IND2,5482.9%
- 9MATRA MURMUIndependent · IND2,1672.5%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–INC swing
- 0.0%
- INC share
- 49.3% → 22.6%
- INC share
- 49.3% → 22.6%
- Turnout
- — → —