Constituency
178. Dum Dum
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-DUM-DUM
PSP 58.6%won by 25.6%INC 33.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Praja Socialist Party (PSP), which now leads by 25.6%.
- PSP vote sharePSP went from 0.0% to 58.6% of the vote here (+58.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.6% of the vote between them, up from 50.6% — 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
46,063
Margin
11,790
25.60%
Candidates
5 contested · winner PSP- 1PABITRA MOHAN ROYPraja Socialist Party · PSP26,99058.6%
- 2KANAI LAL DASIndian National Congress · INC15,20033.0%
- 3HARIPADA BISWASIndependent · IND2,1514.7%
- 4NIKUNJA HALDERBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,3172.9%
- 5BIRENDRA LAL MITRAIndependent · IND4050.9%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- PSPflipped
- PSP–INC swing
- +56.1%
- PSP share
- 0.0% → 58.6%
- INC share
- 30.5% → 33.0%
- Turnout
- — → —