Constituency
403. West Dinajpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1957
IN-WEST-DINAJPUR
INC 29.1%won by 2.9%INC 26.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 18.9% to 2.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 30.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 55.3% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 41.7% to 82.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
7,36,998
Turnout
82.6%
Valid votes
6,08,460
Margin
17,884
2.94%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1SELKU MARDIIndian National Congress · INC1,77,19429.1%
- 2CHAPLALKANTA BHATTACHARJEEIndian National Congress · INC1,59,31026.2%
- 3NARENDRA MOHAN SENCommunist Party of India · CPI1,27,06720.9%
- 4SAMUELPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,14,73118.9%
- 5KISHORILAL KUNDUIndependent · IND30,1585.0%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–INC swing
- 0.0%
- INC share
- 59.4% → 29.1%
- INC share
- 59.4% → 29.1%
- Turnout
- 40.9% → 82.6%