Constituency
161. Falta
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-FALTA
INC 51.8%won by 3.6%CPI 48.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 3.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 25.1% to 51.8% of the vote here (+26.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 62.2% — 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
36,202
Margin
1,288
3.56%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INCSince 1951
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- +15.7%
- INC share
- 25.1% → 51.8%
- CPI share
- 37.2% → 48.2%
- Turnout
- — → —