Constituency
41. Beldanga
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-BELDANGA
INC 45.0%won by 8.9%IND 36.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.4% to 8.9%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from HMS (HMS) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 81.1% of the vote between them, up from 60.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
38,912
Margin
3,459
8.89%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1PARIMAL GHOSHIndian National Congress · INC17,50645.0%
- 2ABDUL LATIFIndependent · IND14,04736.1%
- 3RADHAPADA PRAMANICFBM · FBM6,23216.0%
- 4JNANENDRA NATH LAHIRIHMS · HMS6851.8%
- 5ADBUL WAHEDIndependent · IND4421.1%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −4.1%
- INC share
- 32.5% → 45.0%
- IND share
- 19.5% → 36.1%
- Turnout
- — → —