1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election

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West Bengal, India

The West Bengal state assembly election of 1957 was part of a series of state assembly elections in 1957.

State Reorganization

On 1 November 1956, under States Reorganisation Act, 1956, a portion of the Purnea district east of the river Mahananda and the Purulia sub-district of the Manbhum district in the south (except Char Thana) were transferred from Bihar to West Bengal. Thus, assembly constituencies in West Bengal increased from 187 (238 seats) to 195 (252 seats) during 1957 assembly elections.

Alliances

On the political left two alliances had emerged; the United Left Election Committee (an alliance between CPI, PSP, AIFB, MFB and RSP) and the United Left Front (comprising the SUCI(C), the BPI, the RPI and the Democratic Vanguard). A third alliance was the United Democratic People's Front, consisting of BJS, Hindu Mahasabha and RCPI.

Results

Alliance wise result

The election was won by the Indian National Congress, who got a majority of its own in the assembly. The communists became the largest opposition party.

ULFC	SEATS	ULF	SEATS	INC+	SEATS	UDPF	SEATS	OTHERS	SEATS
CPI	46	SUCI	0	INC	152	BJS	0	IND	25
PSP	21	BPI	0			ABHM	0
AIFB	8	Republican Party				RCPI
MFB		DV
RSP
TOTAL (1957)	75	TOTAL (1957)	0	TOTAL (1957)	152	TOTAL (1957)	0	TOTAL (1957)	0
TOTAL (1952)	39	TOTAL (1952)	2	TOTAL (1952)	150	TOTAL (1952)	13	TOTAL (1952)	34

Party/Alliance	Own	%
Indian National Congress	152	46.14%
United Left Election Committee	80	33.6%
United Left Front (1957)	2	2.45%
United Democratic People's Front	0	3.44%

Summary of results of the 1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly electionTemplate:Election table/category

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Party	No. of candidates	No. of elected	No. of votes	%
Indian National Congress	251	152	4,830,992	46.14%
Communist Party of India	103	46	1,865,106	17.81%
Praja Socialist Party	67	21	1,031,392	9.85%
Forward Bloc	26	8	425,318	4.06%
Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha	37	0	225,126	2.15%
Bharatiya Jana Sangh	33	0	102,477	0.98%
Independents	418	25	1,989,392	19.00%
Total:	935	252	10,469,803

Elected members

Constituency	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	Member	Party
Kalimpong	None	Narbahadur Gurung	Template:Full party name with color
Darjeeling	None	Deo Prakash Rai	Template:Full party name with color
Jore Bungalow	None	Bhadra Bahadur Hamal	Template:Full party name with color
Siliguri	ST	Satyendra Narayan Mazumdar	Template:Full party name with color
		T. Wangdi	Template:Full party name with color
Jalpaiguri	SC	Sarojendra Deb Raikut	Template:Full party name with color
		Khagendra Nath Das Gupta	Template:Full party name with color
Mal	ST	Mangru Bhagat	Template:Full party name with color
		Budhu Bhagat	Template:Full party name with color
Mainaguri	None	Jaineswar Roy	Template:Full party name with color
Falakata	None	Jagadananda Roy	Template:Full party name with color
Kalchini	ST	Debendra Nath Brahma Mandal	Template:Full party name with color
		Anima Hoare	Template:Full party name with color
Alipur Duars	None	Pijush Kanti Mukherjee	Template:Full party name with color
Tufanganj	None	Jatindra Nath Sinha Sarker	Template:Full party name with color
Cooch Behar	SC	Maziruddin Ahmed	Template:Full party name with color
		Satish Chandra Roy Singha	Template:Full party name with color
Dinhata	SC	Bhawani Prasanna Talukdar	Template:Full party name with color
		Umesh Chandra Mandal	Template:Full party name with color
Mathabhanga	None	Sarada Prasad Pramanik	Template:Full party name with color
Mekliganj	None	Satyendra Prasanna Chatterjee	Template:Full party name with color
Balurghat	ST	Mardi Hakai	Template:Full party name with color
		Dhirendra Nath Banerjee	Template:Full party name with color
Gangarampur	ST	Lakshan Chandra Hasda	Template:Full party name with color
		Satindra Nath Basu	Template:Full party name with color
Raiganj	SC	Hazi Badiruddin Ahmmad	Template:Full party name with color
		Syama Prasad Barman	Template:Full party name with color
Itahar	None	Basanta Lal Chatterjee	Template:Full party name with color
Chopra	None	Mahammad Affaque Choudhury	Template:Full party name with color
Goalpokhar	None	Muzzafar Hussain	Template:Full party name with color
Karandighi	None	Phanis Chandra Sinha	Template:Full party name with color
Kharba	None	Golam Yazdani	Template:Full party name with color
Harischandrapur	None	Elias Razi	Template:Full party name with color
Ratua	SC	Sourindra Mohan Misra	Template:Full party name with color
		Dhaneswar Saha	Template:Full party name with color
Malda	ST	Nikunja Behari Gupta	Template:Full party name with color
		Matla Murmu	Template:Full party name with color
Englishbazar	None	Santi Gopal Sen	Template:Full party name with color
Sujapur	None	Monoranjan Misra	Template:Full party name with color
Kaliachak	None	Mahibur Rahman Choudhury	Template:Full party name with color
Farakka	None	Mahammad Giasuddin	Template:Full party name with color
Suti	None	Lutfal Hoque	Template:Full party name with color
Jangirpur	SC	Shyamapada Bhattacharjee	Template:Full party name with color
		Kuber Chand Haldar	Template:Full party name with color
Murshidabad	None	Durgapada Sinha	Template:Full party name with color
Lalgola	None	Syed Kazem Ali Meerza	Template:Full party name with color
Bhagabangola	None	Hafizur Rehman Kazi	Template:Full party name with color
Raninagar	None	Badrudduja Syed	Template:Full party name with color
Jalangi	None	Golam Soleman	Template:Full party name with color
Hariharpara	None	Hazi A. Hameed	Template:Full party name with color
Berhampore	None	Bejoy Kumar Ghosh	Template:Full party name with color
Naoda	None	Mohammed Israil	Template:Full party name with color
Beldanga	None	Parimal Ghosh	Template:Full party name with color
Bharatpur	None	Goalbadan Trivedi	Template:Full party name with color
Kandi	SC	Sudhir Mondal	Template:Full party name with color
		Bimal Chandra Sinha	Template:Full party name with color
Nalhati	SC	Mohammad Yeakub Hossain	Template:Full party name with color
		Sisir Kumar Saha	Template:Full party name with color
Rampurhat	SC	Gobardhan Das	Template:Full party name with color
		Durgapada Das	Template:Full party name with color
Suri	ST	Turku Hansda	Template:Full party name with color
		Mihirlal Chatterji	Template:Full party name with color
Rajnagar	SC	Nishapati Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
		Khagendranath Bandopadhyay	Template:Full party name with color
Bolpur	None	Amarendra Nath Sarkar	Template:Full party name with color
Labhpur	None	Radhanath Chattoraj	Template:Full party name with color
Ketugram	SC	Sankar Dass	Template:Full party name with color
		Abdus Sattar	Template:Full party name with color
Katwa	None	Tarapada Chaudhuri	Template:Full party name with color
Purbasthali	None	Bimalananda Taratirtha	Template:Full party name with color
Monteswar	None	Bhakta Chandra Roy	Template:Full party name with color
Kalna	ST	Hare Krishna Konar	Template:Full party name with color
		Jamadar Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
Raina	SC	Dasorathi Tah	Template:Full party name with color
		Gobardhan Pakray	Template:Full party name with color
Burdwan	None	Benoy Krishna Chowdhury	Template:Full party name with color
Galsi	SC	Fakir Chandra Roy	Template:Full party name with color
		Pramatha Nath Dhibar	Template:Full party name with color
Ausgram	None	Kanailal Das	Template:Full party name with color
Bhatar	None	Abhalata Kundu	Template:Full party name with color
Ondal	SC	Dhawajadhari Mondal	Template:Full party name with color
		Ananda Gopal Mukhopadhya	Template:Full party name with color
Jamuria	SC	Amarendra Mondal	Template:Full party name with color
		Baidya Nath Mondal	Template:Full party name with color
Kulti	None	Benarashi Prosad Jha	Template:Full party name with color
Hirapur	None	Taher Hossain	Template:Full party name with color
Asansol	None	Shib Das Ghatak	Template:Full party name with color
Raghunathpur	SC	Shankar Narayan Singha Deo	Template:Full party name with color
		Nepal Bouri	Template:Full party name with color
Jhalda	None	Debendra Nath Mahato	Template:Full party name with color
Arsa	None	Sagar Chandra Mahato	Template:Full party name with color
Purulia	SC	Nakul Chandra Sahis	Template:Full party name with color
		Labanya Prava Ghosh	Template:Full party name with color
Balarampur	None	Bhim Chandra Mahato	Template:Full party name with color
Manbazar	ST	Chaitan Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
		Satya Kinkar Mahato	Template:Full party name with color
Kashipur	ST	Ledu Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
		Budhan Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
Bankura	SC	Sihsuram Mandal	Template:Full party name with color
		Anath Bandhu Roy	Template:Full party name with color
Chhatna	ST	Dhirendra Nath Chattopadhyay	Template:Full party name with color
		Kamala Kanta Hembram	Template:Full party name with color
Onda	SC	Gokul Behari Das	Template:Full party name with color
		Ashutosh Mallick	Template:Full party name with color
Raipur	ST	Jadu Nath Murmu	Template:Full party name with color
		Sudha Rani Dutta	Template:Full party name with color
Vishnupur	SC	Purabi Mukhopadyay	Template:Full party name with color
		Kiran Chandra Digar	Template:Full party name with color
Patrasayer	SC	Guru Pada Khan	Template:Full party name with color
		Bhabataran Chakravarty	Template:Full party name with color
Kotulpur	None	Jagannath Kolay	Template:Full party name with color
Arambagh	None	Radha Krishna Pal	Template:Full party name with color
Khanakul	SC	Panchanan Digpati	Template:Full party name with color
		Prafulla Chandra Sen	Template:Full party name with color
Tarakeswar	None	Parbati Hazra	Template:Full party name with color
Dhaniakhali	SC	Radha Nath Das	Template:Full party name with color
		D. N. Mukherjee	Template:Full party name with color
Balagarh	None	Bejoy Krishna Modak	Template:Full party name with color
Chinsurah	None	Bhupati Majumder	Template:Full party name with color
Chandernagore	None	Hirendrra Kumar Chattopadhyay	Template:Full party name with color
Bhadreswar	None	Bomkesh Mazumder	Template:Full party name with color
Serampore	None	Panchugopal Bhaduri	Template:Full party name with color
Uttarpara	None	Monoranjan Hazra	Template:Full party name with color
Singur	None	Provakar Pal	Template:Full party name with color
Jangipara	SC	Biswanath Saha	Template:Full party name with color
		Kanai Dey	Template:Full party name with color
Jagatballavpur	None	Brindaban Behari Basu	Template:Full party name with color
Domjur	None	Tarapada De	Template:Full party name with color
Bally	None	Monilal Basu	Template:Full party name with color
Howrah North	None	Samar Mukhopadhyay	Template:Full party name with color
Howrah West	None	Bankim Chandra Kar	Template:Full party name with color
Howrah East	None	Beni Chandra Dutta	Template:Full party name with color
Howrah South	None	Kanailal Bhattacharjee	Template:Full party name with color
Sankrail	SC	Shyama Prosanna Bhattacharjee	Template:Full party name with color
		Apurbalal Majumdar	Template:Full party name with color
Uluberia	SC	Abani Kumar Basu	Template:Full party name with color
		Bijoy Bhusan Mondal	Template:Full party name with color
Shyampur	None	Sasabindu Bera	Template:Full party name with color
Bagnan	None	Amal Kumar Ganguli	Template:Full party name with color
Amta East	None	Gobinda Charan Maji	Template:Full party name with color
Amta West	None	Arabinda Roy	Template:Full party name with color
Daspur	None	Bhabani Ranjan Panja	Template:Full party name with color
Ghatal	SC	Harendra Nath Dolui	Template:Full party name with color
		Lakshman Chandra Sarkar	Template:Full party name with color
Garhbeta	ST	Tusar Tudu	Template:Full party name with color
		Saroj Roy	Template:Full party name with color
Midnapur	None	Anjali Khan	Template:Full party name with color
Binpur	ST	Sudhir Kumar Pandey	Template:Full party name with color
		Jamadar Hasda	Template:Full party name with color
Jhargram	None	Mahendra Mahata	Template:Full party name with color
Gopiballavpur	ST	Surendra Nath Mahata	Template:Full party name with color
		Jagatpati Hansda	Template:Full party name with color
Kharagpur	None	Narayan Chobey	Template:Full party name with color
Kharagpur Local	SC	Krishna Prasad Mandal	Template:Full party name with color
		Mrityunjoy Jana	Template:Full party name with color
Debra	None	Mohini Mohan Pat	Template:Full party name with color
Sabang	None	Gopal Chandra Das Adhikari	Template:Full party name with color
Dantan	None	Charu Chandra Mahanty	Template:Full party name with color
Pataspur	None	Sisir Kumar Das	Template:Full party name with color
Egra	None	Bhuban Chandra Kar Mahapatra	Template:Full party name with color
Ramnagar	None	Trailokya Nath Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
Contai South	None	Rashbehari Pal	Template:Full party name with color
Contai North	None	Natenda Nath Das	Template:Full party name with color
Bhagwanpur	SC	Basanta Kumar Panda	Template:Full party name with color
		Bhikari Mandal	Template:Full party name with color
Panskura West	None	Shyamadas Bhattacharyya	Template:Full party name with color
Pansuka East	None	Rajani Kanta Pramanik	Template:Full party name with color
Tamiuk	None	Ajoy Kumar Mukherji	Template:Full party name with color
Nandigram North	None	Subodh Chandra Maity	Template:Full party name with color
Nandigram South	None	Bhupal Chandra Panda	Template:Full party name with color
Mahishadal	SC	Prafulla Chandra Ghosh	Template:Full party name with color
		Mahatab Chand Das	Template:Full party name with color
Mayna	None	Ananga Mohan Das	Template:Full party name with color
Cossipore	None	Daben Sen	Template:Full party name with color
Belgachia	None	Ganesh Ghosh	Template:Full party name with color
Shampukur	None	Hemanata Kumar Bose	Template:Full party name with color
Burtola North	None	Sudhir Chandra Ray Chaudhuri	Template:Full party name with color
Burtola South	None	Amarendra Nath Basu	Template:Full party name with color
Manicktola	None	Ranendra Nath Sen	Template:Full party name with color
Jorabagan	None	Nepal Ray	Template:Full party name with color
Jorasanko	None	Anandilall Poddar	Template:Full party name with color
Bara Bazar	None	Ishwar Das Jalan	Template:Full party name with color
Sukeas Street	None	Sihrid Malik Chowdhury	Template:Full party name with color
Vidyasagar	None	Narayan Chandra Roy	Template:Full party name with color
Beliaghata	SC	Rama Shanker Prasad	Template:Full party name with color
		Jagat Bose	Template:Full party name with color
Bow Bazar	None	Bidhan Chandra Roy	Template:Full party name with color
Muchipara	None	Jatin Chakraborty	Template:Full party name with color
Taltola	None	Dhirendra Nath Dhar	Template:Full party name with color
Entally	None	A.M.O. Ghani	Template:Full party name with color
Chowringhee	None	Bijoy Singh Nahar	Template:Full party name with color
Bhowanipur	None	Siddhartha Snenkar Roy	Template:Full party name with color
Ballygunge	None	Jnendra Mazumder	Template:Full party name with color
Rashbehari Avenue	None	Sunil Das	Template:Full party name with color
Alipore	None	Somnath Lahiri	Template:Full party name with color
Kalighat	None	Manikuntala Sen	Template:Full party name with color
Ekbalpore	None	Narenda Nath Sen	Template:Full party name with color
Fort	None	Maitreyee Bose	Template:Full party name with color
Tollygunge	None	Haridas Mitra	Template:Full party name with color
Garden Reach	None	Shaikh Abduallah Farooquie	Template:Full party name with color
Behala	None	Rabindra Nath Mukhopadhyay	Template:Full party name with color
Mahashtola	None	Sudhir Chandra Bhandari	Template:Full party name with color
Budge Budge	None	Bankim Mukherji	Template:Full party name with color
Bishnupur	SC	Provash Chandra Roy	Template:Full party name with color
		Rabindra Nath Roy	Template:Full party name with color
Baruipur	SC	Khagendra Kumar Roy Chowdhury	Template:Full party name with color
		Gangadhar Naskar	Template:Full party name with color
Magrahat	SC	Abul Hashem	Template:Full party name with color
		Ardhendu Sekhar Naskar	Template:Full party name with color
Falta	None	Khagendra Nath Das	Template:Full party name with color
Diamond Harbour	None	Ramanuj Haider	Template:Full party name with color
Kulpi	None	Hansadhwaj Dhara	Template:Full party name with color
Kakdwip	None	Maya Banerji	Template:Full party name with color
Mathurapur	SC	Bhusan Chandra Das	Template:Full party name with color
		Brindaban Gayen	Template:Full party name with color
Joynagar	SC	Subodh Banerjee	Template:Full party name with color
		Renupada Halder	Template:Full party name with color
Bhangar	None	Hem Chandra Naskar	Template:Full party name with color
Canning	SC	Khagenda Nath Naskar	Template:Full party name with color
		Abdus Shokur	Template:Full party name with color
Sandeshkhali	None	Haran Chandra Mondal	Template:Full party name with color
Hasnabad	SC	Hemanta Kumar Ghosal	Template:Full party name with color
		Rajkrishna Mondal	Template:Full party name with color
Basirhat	None	Profulla Nath Banerjee	Template:Full party name with color
Baduria	None	Md. Zia Ul Haque	Template:Full party name with color
Swarupnagarr	None	Mohammad Ishaque	Template:Full party name with color
Haroa	None	Zahangir Kabir	Template:Full party name with color
Habra	None	Tarun Kanti Ghosh	Template:Full party name with color
Degsanga	SC	Rafiuddin Ahmed	Template:Full party name with color
		Atul Krishna Roy	Template:Full party name with color
Baraset	None	Chitto Basu	Template:Full party name with color
Dum Dum	None	Pabitra Mohan Roy	Template:Full party name with color
Baranagar	None	Jyoti Bose	Template:Full party name with color
Khardah	None	Satkari Mitra	Template:Full party name with color
Titagarh	None	Krishna Kumar Sukla	Template:Full party name with color
Noapara	None	Panchanan Bhattacharjee	Template:Full party name with color
Bhatpara	None	Sitaram Gupta	Template:Full party name with color
Naihati	None	Gopal Basu	Template:Full party name with color
Bijpur	None	Niranjan Sen Gupta	Template:Full party name with color
Bongaon	None	Ajit Kumar Ganguli	Template:Full party name with color
		Manindra Bhusan Biswas	Template:Full party name with color
Chakdah	None	Suresh Chandra Banerjee	Template:Full party name with color
Ranaghat	None	Benoy Kumar Chatterjee	Template:Full party name with color
Haringhatta	SC	Smarajit Bandyopadhyay	Template:Full party name with color
		Promatha Ranjan Thakur	Template:Full party name with color
Santipur	None	Haridas Dey	Template:Full party name with color
Nabadwip	None	Niranjan Modak	Template:Full party name with color
Krishnagar	None	Jagannath Majumder	Template:Full party name with color
Nakashipara	SC	Mahananda Haldar	Template:Full party name with color
		S. M. Fazlur Rahman	Template:Full party name with color
Tehatta	None	Sankardas Bandyopadhyay	Template:Full party name with color
Karimpur	None	Bijoy Lal Chattopadhyay	Template:Full party name with color

See also

• 1957 elections in India
• 1952 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election