Constituency
392. Ghatal
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1957
IN-GHATAL
INC 59.6%won by 19.3%CPI 40.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 19.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 38.2% to 59.6% of the vote here (+21.4%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 78.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 12.7% to 62.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,43,265
Turnout
62.6%
Valid votes
2,77,622
Margin
53,572
19.30%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1NIKUNJA BEHARI MAITYIndian National Congress · INC1,65,59759.6%
- 2NIKUNJA CHOWDHURYCommunist Party of India · CPI1,12,02540.4%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- +21.8%
- INC share
- 38.2% → 59.6%
- CPI share
- 40.7% → 40.4%
- Turnout
- 49.9% → 62.6%