1957
Total Constituencies: 28
West Bengal Lok Sabha Election 1957 covered all 28 parliamentary constituencies in the state. The INC received the highest statewide vote share at 48.20% and won 16 seats, while the CPI received 19.01% of the vote and won 5 seats. The IND won 3 seats with 13.95% of the vote.
The table below shows party-wise results based on total votes received across West Bengal.
| Party Name | Seats Contested | Seats Won | Vote Share | Vote Share on Contested | Total Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 16 | 48.20% | 49.44% | 50,31,696 | |
| 12 | 5 | 19.01% | 39.70% | 19,85,181 | |
| IND | 20 | 3 | 13.95% | 19.60% | 14,56,098 |
| FBM | 4 | 2 | 6.37% | 43.55% | 6,65,341 |
| PSP | 6 | 2 | 5.66% | 20.89% | 5,90,692 |
| HMS | 5 | 0 | 5.38% | 26.74% | 5,61,741 |
| Constituency | Winner | Runner-up | Margin | Margin(%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Candidate | Party | Votes | |||
| Cooch Behar | Santosh Banerjee | INC | 2,47,783 | Upendranath Barman | INC | 2,20,572 | 27,211 | 3.54 |
| Darjeeling | T. Manaen | INC | 60,460 | Ratanlall Brahmin | CPI | 49,785 | 10,675 | 7.64 |
| West Dinajpur | Selku Mardi | INC | 1,77,194 | Chaplalkanta Bhattacharjee | INC | 1,59,310 | 17,884 | 2.94 |
| Malda | Renuka Ray | INC | 97,217 | S. Rahaman | IND | 59,951 | 37,266 | 17.81 |
| Murshidabad | Muhammad Khuda Bukhsh | INC | 85,041 | Abu K. M. Zakaria | PSP | 80,646 | 4,395 | 2.17 |
| Berhampore | Tridib Chowdhuri | IND | 1,33,477 | Nazrul Haque Khandoker | IND | 1,18,995 | 14,482 | 5.5 |
| Birbhum | Kamal Krishna Das | INC | 2,39,745 | Anil Kumar Chanda | INC | 1,97,747 | 41,998 | 5.69 |
| Burdwan | Subiman Ghose | FBM | 1,07,670 | Durgapade Chaudhuri | INC | 1,05,620 | 2,050 | 0.96 |
| Asansol | Mono Mohan Das | INC | 1,86,374 | Atulya Ghosh | INC | 1,63,725 | 22,649 | 3.59 |
| Purulia | Bibhuti Bhusan Das Gupta | IND | 75,890 | Mahato Nagendra Nath Singh Deo | INC | 56,698 | 19,192 | 14.48 |
| Bankura | Pashupati Mandal | INC | 1,52,687 | Ramgati Banerjee | INC | 1,51,001 | 1,686 | 0.27 |
| Hooghly | Provat Kar | CPI | 81,329 | Sachindra Chowdhury | INC | 78,356 | 2,973 | 1.28 |
| Serampore | Jitendra Nath Lahiri | INC | 1,25,798 | Tusar Chattopadhyay | CPI | 1,20,264 | 5,534 | 2.24 |
| Howrah | Mohammed Elias | CPI | 1,08,238 | Santosh Kr. Dutt | INC | 67,403 | 40,835 | 18.22 |
| Uluberia | Aurobinda Ghosal | FBM | 1,20,506 | Kalobaran Ghosh | INC | 92,829 | 27,677 | 11.88 |
| Ghatal | Nikunja Behari Maity | INC | 1,65,597 | Nikunja Chowdhury | CPI | 1,12,025 | 53,572 | 19.3 |
| Midnapur | Narasingha Malla Ugal Sanda Deb | INC | 1,94,817 | Subodh Hansda | INC | 1,60,252 | 34,565 | 4.71 |
| Contai | Pramatha Nath Bandopadhaya | PSP | 1,33,853 | Basanta K. Das | INC | 1,29,491 | 4,362 | 1.6 |
| Tamulk | Satish Chandra Samanta | INC | 1,58,464 | Gobinda Chandra Bhowmik | FBM | 1,36,190 | 22,274 | 7.13 |
| Calcutta Central | Hirendra Nath Mukherjee | CPI | 1,35,308 | Nalinaksha Sanyal | INC | 68,403 | 66,905 | 32.16 |
| Calcutta East | Sadhan Ch. Gupta | CPI | 1,43,350 | Ranadeb Chowdhury | INC | 81,135 | 62,215 | 27.21 |
| Calcutta North West | Asoke Kumar Sen | INC | 1,02,807 | Mohit Maitra | IND | 96,880 | 5,927 | 2.88 |
| Calcutta South West | Biren Roy | IND | 94,944 | Ashim Krishna Dutt | INC | 82,406 | 12,538 | 6.65 |
| Diamond Harbour | Kansari Halder | CPI | 2,47,785 | Purnindu Sekhar Naskar | INC | 2,45,266 | 2,519 | 0.26 |
| Basirhat | Paresh Nath Kayal | INC | 2,05,832 | Renu Chakravartty | CPI | 1,86,004 | 19,828 | 2.32 |
| Barrackpore | Bimal Coomar Ghose | PSP | 1,32,906 | Labanya Prova Dutta | INC | 87,879 | 45,027 | 18.63 |
| Barasat | Arun Chandra Guha | INC | 1,39,783 | Bhowani Sankar Sen Gupta | CPI | 1,33,742 | 6,041 | 2.2 |
| Nabadwip | Ila Pal Choudhury | INC | 1,34,084 | Kumaresh Chandra | IND | 84,980 | 49,104 | 22.42 |