Constituency
150. Kalighat
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-KALIGHAT
CPI 50.4%won by 2.5%INC 47.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 6.2% to 2.5%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.3% of the vote between them, up from 79.8% — 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
33,988
Margin
864
2.54%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1MANIKUNTALA SENCommunist Party of India · CPI17,13550.4%
- 2BIVABATI MITRAIndian National Congress · INC16,27147.9%
- 3AJIT KUMAR HAZRAIndependent · IND5821.7%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- −3.7%
- CPI share
- 43.0% → 50.4%
- INC share
- 36.8% → 47.9%
- Turnout
- — → —