Constituency
46. Suri
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-SURI
PSP 30.1%won by 4.6%CPI 25.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Praja Socialist Party (PSP), which now leads by 4.6%.
- PSP vote sharePSP went from 0.0% to 30.1% of the vote here (+30.1%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 25.5% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 55.7% of the vote between them, up from 38.5% — 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
94,895
Margin
4,356
4.59%
Candidates
8 contested · winner PSP- 1MIHIRLAL CHATTERJIPraja Socialist Party · PSP28,58330.1%
- 2TURKU HANSDA (ST)Communist Party of India · CPI24,22725.5%
- 3GOPIKABILAS SENGUPTAIndian National Congress · INC12,80313.5%
- 4ABDUL MOTALEBIndependent · IND10,17910.7%
- 5BHUSAN HANSDA (ST)Indian National Congress · INC9,56010.1%
- 6BEJOYGOPAL CHANDRAIndependent · IND4,5394.8%
- 7KISHAN HANSDA (ST)Independent · IND3,3983.6%
- 8MOHIDAS SOREN (ST)Independent · IND1,6061.7%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- PSPflipped
- PSP–CPI swing
- +4.6%
- PSP share
- 0.0% → 30.1%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 25.5%
- Turnout
- — → —