Constituency
84. Chinsurah
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-CHINSURAH
INC 56.8%won by 16.2%FBM 40.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.0% to 16.2%.
- New challengerFBM (FBM) finished second with 40.6% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.4% of the vote between them, up from 37.8% — 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
40,803
Margin
6,592
16.16%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1BHUPATI MAJUMDERIndian National Congress · INC23,17456.8%
- 2SAMBHU CHARAN GHOSEFBM · FBM16,58240.6%
- 3SAMARENDRA PAULIndependent · IND1,0472.6%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–FBM swing
- −3.2%
- INC share
- 19.4% → 56.8%
- FBM share
- 0.0% → 40.6%
- Turnout
- — → —