Constituency
93. Bally
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-BALLY
INC 48.7%won by 1.6%CPI 47.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.4% to 1.6%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from FBLMG (FBLMG) to Communist Party of India (CPI).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.8% of the vote between them, up from 71.5% — 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
34,067
Margin
552
1.62%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1MONILAL BASUIndian National Congress · INC16,60048.7%
- 2BIREN BANERJEECommunist Party of India · CPI16,04847.1%
- 3BISWANATH DASIndependent · IND9932.9%
- 4CHANDRESWAR PRASAD SINGHAIndependent · IND4261.3%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −36.3%
- INC share
- 42.0% → 48.7%
- CPI share
- 4.1% → 47.1%
- Turnout
- — → —