Constituency
83. Balagarh
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-BALAGARH
CPI 47.5%won by 2.6%INC 44.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 2.6%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 0.0% to 47.5% of the vote here (+47.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.5% of the vote between them, up from 58.5% — 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
36,294
Margin
959
2.64%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPISince 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +37.9%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 47.5%
- INC share
- 35.3% → 44.9%
- Turnout
- — → —