Constituency
72. Bankura
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-BANKURA
INC 23.5%won by 4.1%INC 19.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: HMS (HMS) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 4.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 26.5% to 23.5% of the vote here (−3.1%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (CPI) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 42.9% between them, down from 71.7% — the field split more ways.
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
1,12,242
Margin
4,566
4.07%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1SIHSURAM MANDAL (SC)Indian National Congress · INC26,34423.5%
- 2ANATH BANDHU ROYIndian National Congress · INC21,77819.4%
- 3RAKHAHARI CHATTOPADHYAYHMS · HMS17,28015.4%
- 4BIJOY KUMAR MANDAL (SC)HMS · HMS16,84615.0%
- 5JAGADISH PALITCommunist Party of India · CPI14,32312.8%
- 6RABI PADA BOURI (SC)Communist Party of India · CPI13,35411.9%
- 7AKSHOY BOURI (SC)Independent · IND2,3172.1%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- HMS
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–INC swing
- 0.0%
- INC share
- 26.5% → 23.5%
- INC share
- 26.5% → 23.5%
- Turnout
- — → —