Constituency
39. Berhampore
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-BERHAMPORE
INC 45.5%won by 3.0%CPI 42.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 6.7% to 3.0%.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 42.5% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Multi-cornered3 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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Valid votes
31,426
Margin
943
3.00%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1BEJOY KUMAR GHOSHIndian National Congress · INC14,29445.5%
- 2SANAT KUMAR RAHACommunist Party of India · CPI13,35142.5%
- 3JNANENDRA NATH SEN GUPTAIndependent · IND3,78112.0%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −42.9%
- INC share
- 45.9% → 45.5%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 42.5%
- Turnout
- — → —