SC · West Bengal
Cooch Behar
Santosh Banerjee (INC) won by 27,211 votes (3.5%).
- Electors
- 8,12,583
- Votes polled
- 7,69,330
- Valid votes
- 7,69,330
- Turnout
- 94.7%
- NOTA
- 0
- Polling date
- 1957-02-25
Margin vs 1957 national median: 3.5% (median 11.1%). Back to West Bengal · 1957 national · Target seats
Seat health
Margin band, turnout swing, NOTA, and history for campaign defence / attack reads.
Marginal (2–5%)Flipped vs 2019
- Margin · 2024
- 2.4%(-1.1%)
- Turnout
- 82.5%(-7.8%)
- NOTA
- 1.0%
- Top-2 squeeze
- 95.6%
Winning margin over time · Cooch Behar
Candidates
| Rank | Candidate | Party | Votes | Vote share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Santosh BanerjeeWinner | INC | 2,47,783 | 32.2% |
| 1 | Upendranath BarmanWinner | INC | 2,20,572 | 28.7% |
| 3 | Sibendra Kumar Bhattacharya | FBM | 1,73,392 | 22.5% |
| 4 | Kamalkrishna Roy Singha | FBM | 1,27,583 | 16.6% |
| 5 | Devendra Mohan Sarkar | PSP | 0 | 0.0% |
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