Constituency
140. Beliaghata
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-BELIAGHATA
CPI 30.4%won by 2.8%CPI 27.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: FBLMG (FBLMG) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 2.8%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 0.0% to 30.4% of the vote here (+30.4%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 27.6% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 58.0% of the vote between them, up from 49.0% — 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
1,08,828
Margin
3,002
2.76%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPI- 1JAGAT BOSECommunist Party of India · CPI33,05430.4%
- 2RAMA SHANKER PRASAD (SC)Communist Party of India · CPI30,05227.6%
- 3PULIN BEHARI KHATICK (SC)Indian National Congress · INC20,56018.9%
- 4BUDHUBHUSAN SARKARIndian National Congress · INC17,23415.8%
- 5BHABESH CHANDRA DAS (SC)Independent · IND5,6945.2%
- 6KALYAN BRATA ROY (SC)Independent · IND2,2342.1%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- FBLMG
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–CPI swing
- 0.0%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 30.4%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 30.4%
- Turnout
- — → —