Constituency
171. Basirhat
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-BASIRHAT
INC 39.0%won by 2.1%PSP 37.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.3% to 2.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerPraja Socialist Party (PSP) finished second with 37.0% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 76.0% of the vote between them, up from 67.0% — 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
34,146
Margin
700
2.05%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1PROFULLA NATH BANERJEEIndian National Congress · INC13,33039.0%
- 2SAMAR GUHAPraja Socialist Party · PSP12,63037.0%
- 3WAZED ALI MOLLAHIndependent · IND5,96917.5%
- 4PROVAT KUMAR SARKARBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,8755.5%
- 5ABDUL WAHEDIndependent · IND3421.0%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–PSP swing
- −41.6%
- INC share
- 43.6% → 39.0%
- PSP share
- 0.0% → 37.0%
- Turnout
- — → —