Constituency
25. Ratua
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-RATUA
INC 25.9%won by 3.6%INC 22.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 59.8% to 3.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 50.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 48.1% between them, down from 92.8% — 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
87,716
Margin
3,183
3.63%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1SOURINDRA MOHAN MISRAIndian National Congress · INC22,70125.9%
- 2DHANESWAR SAHA (SC)Indian National Congress · INC19,51822.3%
- 3ATUL CHANDRA KUMARIndependent · IND14,31916.3%
- 4MAHAFUZAR RAHAMAN KHANIndependent · IND9,75911.1%
- 5DURYODHAN MONDAL (SC)Communist Party of India · CPI7,9389.0%
- 6RAIPADA DAS (SC)Independent · IND7,1168.1%
- 7BAIDYA NATH CHOUDUY (SC)Independent · IND4,2824.9%
- 8DWARIKA NATH PATHAKIndependent · IND2,0832.4%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–INC swing
- 0.0%
- INC share
- 76.3% → 25.9%
- INC share
- 76.3% → 25.9%
- Turnout
- — → —