Constituency
386. Calcutta North West
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1957
IN-CALCUTTA-NORTH-WEST
INC 49.9%won by 2.9%IND 47.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Rashtriya Sarvajan Party (RSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 2.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 36.6% to 49.9% of the vote here (+13.3%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.9% of the vote between them, up from 89.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 13.2% to 49.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,14,217
Turnout
49.7%
Valid votes
2,05,994
Margin
5,927
2.88%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1ASOKE KUMAR SENIndian National Congress · INC1,02,80749.9%
- 2MOHIT MAITRAIndependent · IND96,88047.0%
- 3SANJIB KR. CHOUDHURYBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS6,3073.1%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- −30.4%
- INC share
- 36.6% → 49.9%
- IND share
- 3.4% → 47.0%
- Turnout
- 36.5% → 49.7%