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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1957 West Bengal state assembly election
| country = India
| type = parliamentary
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 1952 West Bengal state assembly election
| previous_year = 1952
| next_election = 1962 West Bengal state assembly election
| next_year = 1962
| election_date = May 8, 1957
| seats_for_election = All 252 seats in the [[West Bengal state assembly]]
| image1 = [[File:Dr._Bidhan_Chandra_Roy_in_1943_(cropped).jpg|100x100px]]
| leader1 = [[Bidhan Chandra Roy]]
| party1 = Indian National Congress
| alliance1 =
| leaders_seat1 = [[Bowbazar]]
| seats1 = 152
| seat_change1 = {{increase}}2
| popular_vote1 =
| percentage1 = 46.14%
| swing1 = {{increase}}7.32%
| image2 = [[File:Jyoti Basu - Calcutta 1996-12-21 089 Cropped.png|100x100px]]
| leader2 = [[Jyoti Basu]]
| leaders_seat2 = [[Baranagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Baranagar]]
| party2 = Communist Party of India
| alliance2 = United Left Election Committee
| seats2 = 80
| seat_change2 = {{increase}}52
| popular_vote2 =
| percentage2 = 33.6%
| swing2 = {{increase}}22.84%
| map_image =
| map_size =
| map_caption =
| title = [[Chief Minister of West Bengal|Chief Minister]]
| posttitle = [[Chief Minister of West Bengal|Chief Minister]]
| before_election = [[Bidhan Chandra Roy]]
| before_party = Indian National Congress
| after_election = [[Bidhan Chandra Roy]]
| after_party = Indian National Congress
| majority_seats = 127
}}
[[Image:1957WestBengal.PNG|right|250px|thumb|West Bengal, India]]

The ''' West Bengal state assembly election of 1957''' was part of a series of [[1957 elections in India#Legislative Assembly elections|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.<ref name="1955ReorgStates">{{cite web | url=http://www.epw.in/system/files/pdf/1955_7/42/reorganisation_of_statesthe_approach_and_arrangements.pdf | title=Reorganisation of States, 1955 | publisher=The Economic Weekly | date=October 15, 1955 | access-date=July 25, 2015}}</ref> 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 the [[Communist Party of India]], the [[Praja Socialist Party]], the [[All India Forward Bloc|Forward Bloc]], [[Marxist Forward Bloc]] and the [[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party]]) and the [[United Left Front (1957)|United Left Front]] (comprising the [[Socialist Unity Centre of India]], the [[Bolshevik Party of India]], the [[Republican Party (India)|Republican Party]] and the [[Workers Party of India|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]].<ref>M.V.S. Koteswara Rao. ''Communist Parties and United Front - Experience in Kerala and West Bengal''. [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]]: Prajasakti Book House, 2003. p. 216.</ref>

==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.
{| class="wikitable" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: x-small; font-family: verdana"
! style="background-color:#FF0000; color:white"|[[United Left Election Committee|ULFC]]
! style="background-color:#FF0000; color:white"|SEATS
! style="background-color:#DC143C; color:white"|[[United Left Front (1957)|ULF]]
! style="background-color:#DC143C; color:white"|SEATS
! style="background-color:#009900; color:white"|INC+
! style="background-color:#009900; color:white"|SEATS
! style="background-color:#FF9900; color:white"|[[United Democratic People's Front|UDPF]]
! style="background-color:#FF9900; color:white"|SEATS
! style="background-color:#cedff2; color:white"|OTHERS
! style="background-color:#cedff2; color:white"|SEATS
|----
|[[Communist Party of India|CPI]]
|46
|[[Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)|SUCI]]
|0
|[[Indian National Congress|INC]]
|152
|[[Bharatiya Jana Sangh|BJS]]
|0
|[[Independent (politician)|IND]]
|25
|----
|[[Praja Socialist Party|PSP]]
|21
|[[Bolshevik Party of India|BPI]]
|0
|
|
|[[Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha|ABHM]]
|0
|
|
|----
|[[All India Forward Bloc|AIFB]]
|8
|[[Republican Party (India)|Republican Party]]
|
|
|
|[[Revolutionary Communist Party of India|RCPI]]
|
|
|
|----
|[[Marxist Forward Bloc|MFB]]
|
|[[Workers Party of India|DV]]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|----
|[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|RSP]]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|----
| bgcolor=#FF0000|TOTAL (1957)
| bgcolor=#FF0000|75
| bgcolor=#DC143C|TOTAL (1957)
| bgcolor=#DC143C|0
| bgcolor=#009900|TOTAL (1957)
| bgcolor=#009900|152
| bgcolor=#FFF3E1|TOTAL (1957)
| bgcolor=#FFF3E1|0
| bgcolor=#cedff2|TOTAL (1957)
| bgcolor=#cedff2|0
|----
| bgcolor=#FF0000|TOTAL (1952)
| bgcolor=#FF0000|39
| bgcolor=#DC143C|TOTAL (1952)
| bgcolor=#DC143C|2
| bgcolor=#009900|TOTAL (1952)
| bgcolor=#009900|150
| bgcolor=#FFF3E1|TOTAL (1952)
| bgcolor=#FFF3E1|13
| bgcolor=#cedff2|TOTAL (1952)
| bgcolor=#cedff2|34
|}

{|class="wikitable sortable"
| '''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%
|-
|}

<section begin=Results />{{election table|title=Summary of results of the 1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election<ref name="WBECI1957">{{cite web | url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1957/StatRep_WB_1957.pdf | title=Statistical Report on General Election, 1957 : To the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | publisher=Election Commission of India | access-date=July 11, 2015}}</ref> |sortable=yes}}
! '''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%
|-
| [[All India Forward Bloc|Forward Bloc]]
| 26
| 8
| 425,318
| 4.06%
|-
| [[Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha]]
| 37
| 25
| 225,126
| 2.15%
|-
| [[Bharatiya Jana Sangh]]
| 33
| 0
| 102,477
| 0.98%
|-
| Independents
| 418
| 22
| 1,989,392
| 19.00%
|-
| '''Total:'''
| 935
| 252
| 10,469,803
|
|}<section end=Results />

<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.eci.gov.in/SR_KeyHighLights/SE_1957/StatRep_WB_1957.pdf |title=List Of Political Parties |access-date=2008-01-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080228224555/http://www.eci.gov.in/SR_KeyHighLights/SE_1957/StatRep_WB_1957.pdf |archive-date=2008-02-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==See also==
* [[1957 elections in India]]
* [[1952 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]

==References==
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