Constituency
76. Vishnupur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-VISHNUPUR
INC 26.6%won by 0.2%INC 26.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 3.1% to 0.2%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 53.0% of the vote between them, up from 43.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 249 votes (0.19%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- Multi-cornered6 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
1,27,937
Margin
249
0.19%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1KIRAN CHANDRA DIGAR (SC)Indian National Congress · INC34,05926.6%
- 2PURABI MUKHOPADYAYIndian National Congress · INC33,81026.4%
- 3GOURI SHANKAR DASHMS · HMS15,54412.1%
- 4BHABA LARU (SC)Communist Party of India · CPI15,07611.8%
- 5KANAI LAL DEYPraja Socialist Party · PSP13,90110.9%
- 6GOKUL LOHAR (SC)HMS · HMS12,3139.6%
- 7SANATAN SOREN (ST)Independent · IND3,2342.5%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–INC swing
- 0.0%
- INC share
- 23.2% → 26.6%
- INC share
- 23.2% → 26.6%
- Turnout
- — → —