Constituency
395. Malda
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1957
IN-MALDA
INC 46.5%won by 17.8%IND 28.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 28.8% to 17.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.1% between them, down from 83.4% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 10.1% to 51.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,09,274
Turnout
51.1%
Valid votes
2,09,203
Margin
37,266
17.81%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1RENUKA RAYIndian National Congress · INC97,21746.5%
- 2S. RAHAMANIndependent · IND59,95128.7%
- 3HARIPRASANNA MISRAHMS · HMS23,18411.1%
- 4DWIJENDRA NATH SINGHAIndependent · IND20,5209.8%
- 5DEBENDRA NATH JHAIndependent · IND8,3314.0%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −11.0%
- INC share
- 56.1% → 46.5%
- IND share
- 27.3% → 28.7%
- Turnout
- 41.0% → 51.1%