Constituency
184. Naihati
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-NAIHATI
CPI 52.4%won by 12.0%INC 40.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 12.0%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 37.2% to 52.4% of the vote here (+15.2%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.9% of the vote between them, up from 87.3% — 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
32,659
Margin
3,910
11.97%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPI- 1GOPAL BASUCommunist Party of India · CPI17,12852.4%
- 2NIRMAL KUMAR SENIndian National Congress · INC13,21840.5%
- 3ASIT KUMAR RAYIndependent · IND1,2944.0%
- 4NABIN CHANDRRA ROYIndependent · IND5871.8%
- 5SRIKANTHA GHOSALIndependent · IND4321.3%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +24.8%
- CPI share
- 37.2% → 52.4%
- INC share
- 50.1% → 40.5%
- Turnout
- — → —