Constituency
36. Raninagar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-RANINAGAR
IND 64.4%won by 45.6%INC 18.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 45.6%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 25.6% to 64.4% of the vote here (+38.8%).
- Safe seatIndependent won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
33,612
Margin
15,342
45.64%
Candidates
5 contested · winner IND- 1BADRUDDUJA SYEDIndependent · IND21,65964.4%
- 2SYED ABDUL HOSSAINIndian National Congress · INC6,31718.8%
- 3SAMARENDRA NATH PAULLIndependent · IND2,5427.6%
- 4PRANABA KRISHNA CHOUDHURYIndependent · IND2,2726.8%
- 5SISIR KUMAR MIKHOPADHYAIndependent · IND8222.4%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–INC swing
- +81.9%
- IND share
- 25.6% → 64.4%
- INC share
- 61.9% → 18.8%
- Turnout
- — → —