Constituency
186. Bongaon
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-BONGAON
CPI 27.1%won by 4.2%INC 22.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 4.2%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 34.3% to 27.1% of the vote here (−7.2%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 49.9% between them, down from 71.6% — the field split more ways.
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
1,56,543
Margin
6,540
4.18%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPI- 1AJIT KUMAR GANGULICommunist Party of India · CPI42,34927.1%
- 2JIBAN RATAN DHARIndian National Congress · INC35,80922.9%
- 3MANINDRA BHUSAN BISWAS (SC)Indian National Congress · INC30,63319.6%
- 4CHARU MIHIR SARKAR (SC)Praja Socialist Party · PSP20,95913.4%
- 5JOGENDRA NATH MONDAL (SC)Independent · IND15,85210.1%
- 6SHYAMAPADA BISWASHMS · HMS7,4454.8%
- 7MUKUNDA BEHARI MULLICK (SC)Independent · IND2,0721.3%
- 8SUDHIR KUMAR BISWAS (SC)Independent · IND1,4240.9%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +7.3%
- CPI share
- 34.3% → 27.1%
- INC share
- 37.3% → 22.9%
- Turnout
- — → —