Constituency
175. Habra
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-HABRA
INC 61.0%won by 25.7%CPI 35.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 28.7% to 25.7%.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 35.3% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.3% of the vote between them, up from 75.3% — 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
48,897
Margin
12,566
25.70%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1TARUN KANTI GHOSHIndian National Congress · INC29,82561.0%
- 2AMBIKA CHAKRABATTYCommunist Party of India · CPI17,25935.3%
- 3PARITOSH SARKARIndependent · IND9121.9%
- 4STAYENDRA NATH SENHMS · HMS4691.0%
- 5NALINI DAS GUPTAIndependent · IND4320.9%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −26.3%
- INC share
- 52.0% → 61.0%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 35.3%
- Turnout
- — → —