Constituency
54. Kalna
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-KALNA
CPI 26.0%won by 0.7%CPI 25.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 0.7%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 19.2% to 26.0% of the vote here (+6.7%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Communist Party of India (CPI).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 51.2% of the vote between them, up from 42.1% — 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
1,27,145
Margin
953
0.75%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPI- 1HARE KRISHNA KONARCommunist Party of India · CPI32,99626.0%
- 2JAMADAR MAJHI (ST)Communist Party of India · CPI32,04325.2%
- 3BAIDYANATH MAJHI (ST)Indian National Congress · INC26,90021.2%
- 4RASHBEHARI SENIndian National Congress · INC22,08417.4%
- 5ANANDAGOPAL KUMARIndependent · IND9,5687.5%
- 6KALO MAJHI (ST)Independent · IND2,0621.6%
- 7DUBRAJ MAJHI (ST)Independent · IND1,4921.2%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–CPI swing
- 0.0%
- CPI share
- 19.2% → 26.0%
- CPI share
- 19.2% → 26.0%
- Turnout
- — → —