Elections Archive

GEN · West Bengal

NORTH BENGAL

Upendra Nath Barman (INC) won by 14,014 votes (1.6%).

Electors
9,31,845
Votes polled
8,62,056
Valid votes
8,62,056
Turnout
92.5%
NOTA
0
Polling date
1952-03-27

Margin vs 1952 national median: 1.6% (median 14.5%). Back to West Bengal · 1952 national · Target seats

Seat health

Margin band, turnout swing, NOTA, and history for campaign defence / attack reads.

Knife-edge (<2%)
Margin · 1952
1.6%
Turnout
92.5%
NOTA
0.0%
Top-2 squeeze
58.0%

Winning margin over time · NORTH BENGAL

19522%

Candidates

Candidates · NORTH BENGAL 1952
RankCandidatePartyVotesVote share
1Upendra Nath BarmanWinnerINC1,77,61820.6%
1Birendra Nath KathamWinnerINC1,63,60419.0%
1Amiya Kanta BasuWinnerINC1,58,62018.4%
4Himanshu Kumar NeogiIND86,97310.1%
5Upendra Narayan DasFBL(RG)77,2039.0%
6L. R. JosseIND71,5108.3%
7Ganga Ram UraonKMPP67,1817.8%
8Nagendra Nath MahalanobishIND59,3476.9%

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