Constituency
73. Chhatna
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-CHHATNA
INC 30.9%won by 4.8%INC 26.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: HMS (HMS) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 4.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 19.6% to 30.9% of the vote here (+11.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 57.0% of the vote between them, up from 41.4% — 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
61,509
Margin
2,937
4.77%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1DHIRENDRA NATH CHATTOPADHYAYIndian National Congress · INC18,98630.9%
- 2KAMALA KANTA HEMBRAM (ST)Indian National Congress · INC16,04926.1%
- 3BISWANATH KUNDUHMS · HMS9,90216.1%
- 4UDAY BHANU GHOSHIndependent · IND8,58414.0%
- 5PRAHLLAD CHANDRA MURMU (ST)Independent · IND2,8984.7%
- 6CHINTA HARAN CHAKRABARTYIndependent · IND2,6724.3%
- 7BAK SINGHIndependent · IND2,4183.9%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- HMS
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–INC swing
- 0.0%
- INC share
- 19.6% → 30.9%
- INC share
- 19.6% → 30.9%
- Turnout
- — → —