Constituency
43. Kandi
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-KANDI
INC 31.6%won by 2.0%INC 29.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian 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
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,35,761
Margin
2,763
2.04%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1BIMAL CHANDRA SINHAIndian National Congress · INC42,84031.6%
- 2SUDHIR MONDAL (SC)Indian National Congress · INC40,07729.5%
- 3AMARENDRALAL ROYIndependent · IND27,85320.5%
- 4AUHOYPADA SAHA (SC)Independent · IND22,75716.8%
- 5HAZI SAYEEDUR RAHAMANIndependent · IND2,2341.6%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–INC swing
- 0.0%
- INC share
- 38.3% → 31.6%
- INC share
- 38.3% → 31.6%
- Turnout
- — → —