Constituency
388. Contai
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1957
IN-CONTAI
PSP 49.3%won by 1.6%INC 47.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Praja Socialist Party (PSP), which now leads by 1.6%.
- PSP vote sharePSP went from 0.0% to 49.3% of the vote here (+49.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.9% of the vote between them, up from 75.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 5.5% to 61.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,41,736
Turnout
61.5%
Valid votes
2,71,648
Margin
4,362
1.61%
Candidates
3 contested · winner PSP- 1PRAMATHA NATH BANDOPADHAYAPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,33,85349.3%
- 2BASANTA K. DASIndian National Congress · INC1,29,49147.7%
- 3PULIN SENIndependent · IND8,3043.1%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- PSPflipped
- PSP–INC swing
- +39.5%
- PSP share
- 0.0% → 49.3%
- INC share
- 37.9% → 47.7%
- Turnout
- 56.0% → 61.5%