West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 1957

West Bengal state assembly election, 1957

May 8, 1957

All 195 seats in the West Bengal state assembly   First party Second party   Leader Bidhan Chandra Roy Jyoti Basu Party INC CPI Alliance United Left Election Committee Leader's seat Bowbazar Baranagar Seats won 152 80 Seat change +2 +52 Percentage 46,14% 33.6% Swing n/a n/a

Chief Minister before election Bidhan Chandra Roy INC Chief Minister Bidhan Chandra Roy INC

West Bengal, India

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

Alliances

On the political left two alliances had emered; the United Left Election Committee (an alliance between the Communist Party of India, the Praja Socialist Party, the Forward Bloc, Marxist Forward Bloc and the Revolutionary Socialist Party) and the United Left Front (comprising the Socialist Unity Centre of India, the Bolshevik Party of India, the Republican Party and the Democratic Vanguard). A third alliance was the United Democratic People's Front, consisting of Bharatiya Jana Sangh, Hindu Mahasabha and the Revolutionary Communist Party of India.^[1]

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.

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