Constituency
170. Hasnabad
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-HASNABAD
INC 25.7%won by 0.6%CPI 25.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 4.4% to 0.6%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Communist Party of India (CPI).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 50.7% of the vote between them, up from 30.4% — 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
1,16,194
Margin
727
0.63%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1RAJKRISHNA MONDAL (SC)Indian National Congress · INC29,81225.7%
- 2HEMANTA KUMAR GHOSALCommunist Party of India · CPI29,08525.0%
- 3BIJESH SENIndian National Congress · INC24,06120.7%
- 4SACHINDRA NATH MONDAL (SC)Praja Socialist Party · PSP16,37514.1%
- 5BHOLANATH BORHMACHARIIndependent · IND5,5154.7%
- 6ABHIMANYU DAS (SC)Independent · IND4,2873.7%
- 7SACHINDRA NATH MONDALBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS3,5383.0%
- 8AMAL KUMAR BAGCHI (SC)Bharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS3,5213.0%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −3.9%
- INC share
- 17.4% → 25.7%
- CPI share
- 13.0% → 25.0%
- Turnout
- — → —