Constituency
44. Nalhati
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-NALHATI
INC 22.6%won by 4.9%INC 17.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.0% to 4.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 40.4% between them, down from 56.4% — the field split more ways.
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
79,877
Margin
3,888
4.87%
Candidates
13 contested · winner INC- 1MOHAMMAD YEAKUB HOSSAINIndian National Congress · INC18,07122.6%
- 2SISIR KUMAR SAHA (SC)Indian National Congress · INC14,18317.8%
- 3BISHNUPADA GHOSEIndependent · IND10,35513.0%
- 4SHAMSUDDIN AHAMMADIndependent · IND7,5009.4%
- 5ANIL KUMAR DAS (SC)FBM · FBM6,0477.6%
- 6TRILOCHAN MAL (SC)Independent · IND5,1326.4%
- 7ABDUL AZIZIndependent · IND4,9796.2%
- 8DURGADAS MUKERJEEHMS · HMS3,8474.8%
- 9JUGALPADA DASIndependent · IND3,6164.5%
- 10MUDASSIR HOSSAINIndependent · IND2,5783.2%
- 11BIDHU BHUSAN MONDAL (SC)Independent · IND2,0172.5%
- 12SURESH CHANDRA SAHAPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,0391.3%
- 13UPENDRA LET (SC)Independent · IND5130.6%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–INC swing
- 0.0%
- INC share
- 34.7% → 22.6%
- INC share
- 34.7% → 22.6%
- Turnout
- — → —