Constituency
51. Katwa
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-KATWA
INC 54.3%won by 11.6%CPI 42.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 11.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 27.9% to 54.3% of the vote here (+26.4%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.0% of the vote between them, up from 63.0% — 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
37,022
Margin
4,303
11.62%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1TARAPADA CHAUDHURIIndian National Congress · INC20,10254.3%
- 2SUBODH CHAUDHURICommunist Party of India · CPI15,79942.7%
- 3HARIDAS SAHAHMS · HMS1,1213.0%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- +18.9%
- INC share
- 27.9% → 54.3%
- CPI share
- 35.1% → 42.7%
- Turnout
- — → —