Constituency
94. Howrah North
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-HOWRAH-NORTH
CPI 47.4%won by 0.7%INC 46.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.0% to 0.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.0% of the vote between them, up from 82.0% — 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
19,784
Margin
140
0.71%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPISince 1951
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- −19.3%
- CPI share
- 51.0% → 47.4%
- INC share
- 31.0% → 46.7%
- Turnout
- — → —