Constituency
52. Purbasthali
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-PURBASTHALI
INC 56.3%won by 12.7%CPI 43.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 29.9% to 12.7%.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 43.7% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 83.9% — 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
33,194
Margin
4,214
12.70%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INCSince 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −44.2%
- INC share
- 56.9% → 56.3%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 43.7%
- Turnout
- — → —