Constituency
119. Contai South
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-CONTAI-SOUTH
INC 48.1%won by 2.7%PSP 45.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: KMPP (KMPP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 2.7%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 24.1% to 48.1% of the vote here (+24.0%).
- New challengerPraja Socialist Party (PSP) finished second with 45.4% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.5% of the vote between them, up from 64.3% — 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
39,974
Margin
1,091
2.73%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1RASHBEHARI PALIndian National Congress · INC19,23648.1%
- 2SUDHIR CHANDRA DASPraja Socialist Party · PSP18,14545.4%
- 3SATYABRATA MAITYBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,7104.3%
- 4PULIN BEHARI DASIndependent · IND8832.2%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- KMPP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–PSP swing
- −21.4%
- INC share
- 24.1% → 48.1%
- PSP share
- 0.0% → 45.4%
- Turnout
- — → —