Constituency
42. Bharatpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-BHARATPUR
INC 52.5%won by 12.4%IND 40.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 12.9% to 12.4%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.6% of the vote between them, up from 54.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
42,711
Margin
5,314
12.44%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1GOALBADAN TRIVEDIIndian National Congress · INC22,42552.5%
- 2BADRUDDUJA SYEEDIndependent · IND17,11140.1%
- 3SAROJ KUMAR ROY CHOUDHURYIndependent · IND3,1757.4%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −0.4%
- INC share
- 33.7% → 52.5%
- IND share
- 20.8% → 40.1%
- Turnout
- — → —