Election
Constituency

19. Itahar

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1957

WB-ITAHAR

CPI 34.6%won by 1.7%INC 32.9%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 1.7%.

  • CPI vote shareCPI went from 24.1% to 34.6% of the vote here (+10.5%).
  • Multi-cornered4 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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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
25,673
Margin
444
1.73%

Candidates

6 contested · winner CPI
  1. 1BASANTA LAL CHATTERJEECommunist Party of India · CPI8,88734.6%
  2. 2BANAMALI DASIndian National Congress · INC8,44332.9%
  3. 3KOBAD ALIIndependent · IND5,70022.2%
  4. 4AML CHOUDHURYIndependent · IND1,5205.9%
  5. 5RAHAMAT TULLA CHOUDHURYIndependent · IND6422.5%
  6. 6TAHERUDDIN AHAMMADIndependent · IND4811.9%

Since 1951

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
CPIflipped
CPI–INC swing
+24.8%
CPI share
24.1% → 34.6%
INC share
47.2% → 32.9%
Turnout
— → —
18. Raiganj20. Chopra
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