Constituency
195. Karimpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-KARIMPUR
INC 56.0%won by 37.2%IND 18.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: KMPP (KMPP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 37.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 41.9% to 56.0% of the vote here (+14.1%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.8% between them, down from 90.4% — 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
30,424
Margin
11,321
37.21%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1BIJOY LAL CHATTOPADHYAYIndian National Congress · INC17,03556.0%
- 2SATYENDRA NATH CHOUDHURYIndependent · IND5,71418.8%
- 3HARIPADA CHATTOPADHYAYPraja Socialist Party · PSP3,35911.0%
- 4MRIGENDRA MOHAN RAYIndependent · IND2,6838.8%
- 5LAKSHMI NARAYAN BISWASIndependent · IND1,0783.5%
- 6NIRENDRA NATH ROYIndependent · IND5551.8%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- KMPP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- +2.0%
- INC share
- 41.9% → 56.0%
- IND share
- 6.7% → 18.8%
- Turnout
- — → —