Constituency
391. Diamond Harbour
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1957
IN-DIAMOND-HARBOUR
CPI 25.4%won by 0.3%INC 25.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 0.3% to 0.3%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 50.6% of the vote between them, up from 35.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 12.1% to 105.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,25,761
Turnout
105.2%
Valid votes
9,74,006
Margin
2,519
0.26%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPI- 1KANSARI HALDERCommunist Party of India · CPI2,47,78525.4%
- 2PURNINDU SEKHAR NASKARIndian National Congress · INC2,45,26625.2%
- 3KAMAL BASUCommunist Party of India · CPI2,44,76325.1%
- 4NALINI KANTA HALDERIndian National Congress · INC2,36,19224.2%
- 5SUSHIL KUMAR SARDARIndependent · IND00.0%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- −0.1%
- CPI share
- 17.8% → 25.4%
- INC share
- 17.4% → 25.2%
- Turnout
- 93.2% → 105.2%