Constituency
130. Belgachia
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-BELGACHIA
CPI 52.3%won by 20.7%INC 31.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 19.0% to 20.7%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 83.9% of the vote between them, up from 68.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
33,475
Margin
6,926
20.69%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1GANESH GHOSHCommunist Party of India · CPI17,50152.3%
- 2NANDALAL BANERJEEIndian National Congress · INC10,57531.6%
- 3GANAPATI SURIndependent · IND5,39916.1%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- +1.7%
- CPI share
- 43.9% → 52.3%
- INC share
- 24.9% → 31.6%
- Turnout
- — → —