Constituency
97. Howrah South
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-HOWRAH-SOUTH
FBM 60.3%won by 20.5%INC 39.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to FBM (FBM), which now leads by 20.5%.
- FBM vote shareFBM went from 0.0% to 60.3% of the vote here (+60.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 64.4% — 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
30,078
Margin
6,174
20.53%
Candidates
2 contested · winner FBM- 1KANAILAL BHATTACHARJEEFBM · FBM18,12660.3%
- 2BEJOY KRISHNA BHATTACHARJEEIndian National Congress · INC11,95239.7%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- FBMflipped
- FBM–INC swing
- +58.5%
- FBM share
- 0.0% → 60.3%
- INC share
- 38.0% → 39.7%
- Turnout
- — → —