Constituency
157. Budge Budge
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-BUDGE-BUDGE
CPI 51.5%won by 16.0%INC 35.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.9% to 16.0%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.0% of the vote between them, up from 73.9% — 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
35,804
Margin
5,735
16.02%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1BANKIM MUKHERJICommunist Party of India · CPI18,44351.5%
- 2ABU MOHAMMED AKHTARUZAMANIndian National Congress · INC12,70835.5%
- 3MANMATHA ROYIndependent · IND4,65313.0%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- −9.9%
- CPI share
- 49.9% → 51.5%
- INC share
- 24.0% → 35.5%
- Turnout
- — → —