Election
Constituency

43. Kandi

Community mirror

West Bengal Assembly Election, 1957

WB-KANDI

INC 31.6%won by 2.0%INC 29.5%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.1% to 2.0%.

  • Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
  • 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
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
1,35,761
Margin
2,763
2.04%

Since 1951

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INCINC swing
0.0%
INC share
38.3% 31.6%
INC share
38.3% 31.6%
Turnout