Constituency
98. Sankrail
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-SANKRAIL
CPI 29.4%won by 1.9%FBM 27.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: FBLMG (FBLMG) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 1.9%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 0.0% to 29.4% of the vote here (+29.4%).
- New challengerFBM (FBM) finished second with 27.5% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 56.8% of the vote between them, up from 49.4% — 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
1,21,992
Margin
2,352
1.93%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPI- 1SHYAMA PROSANNA BHATTACHARJEECommunist Party of India · CPI35,85029.4%
- 2APURBALAL MAJUMDAR (SC)FBM · FBM33,49827.5%
- 3ANIL KUMAR BASUIndian National Congress · INC17,87414.7%
- 4KRIPA SINDHU SHAW (SC)Indian National Congress · INC15,69612.9%
- 5KASIMUDDIN KAZIIndependent · IND8,2426.8%
- 6NITYANANDA BHUIYA (SC)Independent · IND6,8285.6%
- 7PANKAJ KUMAR DASIndependent · IND4,0043.3%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- FBLMG
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–FBM swing
- +1.9%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 29.4%
- FBM share
- 0.0% → 27.5%
- Turnout
- — → —