Constituency
48. Bolpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-BOLPUR
INC 54.8%won by 31.4%IND 23.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.8% to 31.4%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 78.2% of the vote between them, up from 35.2% — 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
28,979
Margin
9,099
31.40%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1AMARENDRA NATH SARKARIndian National Congress · INC15,88254.8%
- 2SANTIKUMAR SIRKARIndependent · IND6,78323.4%
- 3HEM CHANDRA MUKHOPADHYAYHMS · HMS6,31421.8%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +18.8%
- INC share
- 18.0% → 54.8%
- IND share
- 5.4% → 23.4%
- Turnout
- — → —