Constituency
57. Galsi
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-GALSI
IND 28.4%won by 7.9%FBM 20.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 7.9%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 19.2% to 28.4% of the vote here (+9.3%).
- New challengerFBM (FBM) finished second with 20.5% — it did not contest here in 1951.
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
99,826
Margin
7,935
7.95%
Candidates
6 contested · winner IND- 1FAKIR CHANDRA ROYIndependent · IND28,38028.4%
- 2PRAMATHA NATH DHIBAR (SC)FBM · FBM20,44520.5%
- 3MOHITOSH SAHA (SC)Indian National Congress · INC20,44420.5%
- 4MOHAMMAD HOSSAINIndian National Congress · INC19,77019.8%
- 5PHANI BHUSAN ROYIndependent · IND6,1106.1%
- 6ABDUL MANNANIndependent · IND4,6774.7%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–FBM swing
- −11.2%
- IND share
- 19.2% → 28.4%
- FBM share
- 0.0% → 20.5%
- Turnout
- — → —