Constituency
379. Barrackpore
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1957
IN-BARRACKPORE
PSP 55.0%won by 18.6%INC 36.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Praja Socialist Party (PSP), which now leads by 18.6%.
- PSP vote sharePSP went from 0.0% to 55.0% of the vote here (+55.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.3% of the vote between them, up from 70.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 12.6% to 56.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,30,339
Turnout
56.2%
Valid votes
2,41,747
Margin
45,027
18.63%
Candidates
4 contested · winner PSP- 1BIMAL COOMAR GHOSEPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,32,90655.0%
- 2LABANYA PROVA DUTTAIndian National Congress · INC87,87936.4%
- 3RAGHUNATH PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND13,9435.8%
- 4NARENDRA NATH DAS GUPTABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS7,0192.9%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- PSPflipped
- PSP–INC swing
- +69.9%
- PSP share
- 0.0% → 55.0%
- INC share
- 51.2% → 36.4%
- Turnout
- 43.6% → 56.2%