Constituency
154. Garden Reach
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-GARDEN-REACH
CPI 51.6%won by 12.2%INC 39.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 12.2%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 31.3% to 51.6% of the vote here (+20.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.9% of the vote between them, up from 81.3% — 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
32,233
Margin
3,934
12.20%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPI- 1SHAIKH ABDUALLAH FAROOQUIECommunist Party of India · CPI16,61951.6%
- 2S.M. ABDULLAHIndian National Congress · INC12,68539.4%
- 3SHAFIUR RAHMANIndependent · IND1,9986.2%
- 4KIRSHNA NATH CHATTERJIHMS · HMS5971.9%
- 5ISLAMUDDIN LASKARIndependent · IND3341.0%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +30.9%
- CPI share
- 31.3% → 51.6%
- INC share
- 50.0% → 39.4%
- Turnout
- — → —