Constituency
137. Bara Bazar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-BARA-BAZAR
INC 74.8%won by 59.4%IND 15.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 55.3% to 59.4%.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 15.4% — it polled just 1.2% in 1951.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
26,843
Margin
15,941
59.39%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INCSince 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −11.0%
- INC share
- 71.5% → 74.8%
- IND share
- 1.2% → 15.4%
- Turnout
- — → —