Constituency
79. Arambagh
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-ARAMBAGH
INC 72.3%won by 54.2%FBM 18.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 54.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 18.2% to 72.3% of the vote here (+54.1%).
- New challengerFBM (FBM) finished second with 18.2% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.5% of the vote between them, up from 59.4% — 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
31,078
Margin
16,836
54.17%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1RADHA KRISHNA PALIndian National Congress · INC22,48472.3%
- 2MONORANJAN ROYFBM · FBM5,64818.2%
- 3SAILESWAR PALHMS · HMS1,2974.2%
- 4ABDUL MANANIndependent · IND1,0613.4%
- 5CHANDI CHARAN DUTTAIndependent · IND5881.9%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–FBM swing
- +35.9%
- INC share
- 18.2% → 72.3%
- FBM share
- 0.0% → 18.2%
- Turnout
- — → —