Constituency
88. Uttarpara
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-UTTARPARA
CPI 56.7%won by 17.4%INC 39.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 18.2% to 17.4%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.9% of the vote between them, up from 86.6% — 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
36,610
Margin
6,374
17.41%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1MONORANJAN HAZRACommunist Party of India · CPI20,74556.7%
- 2BISHNU CHARAN BANERJEEIndian National Congress · INC14,37139.3%
- 3ANUP KRISHNA MUKHOPADHYAYHMS · HMS1,4944.1%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- −0.8%
- CPI share
- 52.4% → 56.7%
- INC share
- 34.2% → 39.3%
- Turnout
- — → —