Constituency
62. Kulti
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-KULTI
PSP 48.9%won by 20.5%INC 28.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Praja Socialist Party (PSP), which now leads by 20.5%.
- PSP vote sharePSP went from 0.0% to 48.9% of the vote here (+48.9%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 77.4% of the vote between them, up from 37.8% — 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
17,886
Margin
3,671
20.52%
Candidates
6 contested · winner PSP- 1BENARASHI PROSAD JHAPraja Socialist Party · PSP8,75448.9%
- 2JOYNARAYAN SHARMAIndian National Congress · INC5,08328.4%
- 3MANMATHA CHATTOPADHYAIndependent · IND1,3547.6%
- 4PASHUPATI ACHARYYAIndependent · IND1,2817.2%
- 5HARI NATH GHOSHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,0075.6%
- 6GOUR SWARNKARIndependent · IND4072.3%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- PSPflipped
- PSP–INC swing
- +42.6%
- PSP share
- 0.0% → 48.9%
- INC share
- 22.1% → 28.4%
- Turnout
- — → —