Constituency
15. Sonai
Community mirrorAssam Assembly Election, 1957
AS-SONAI
INC 52.1%won by 31.6%IND 20.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 18.6% to 31.6%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 72.5% of the vote between them, up from 61.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
28,384
Margin
8,975
31.62%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1SINHA, NANDA KISHOREIndian National Congress · INC14,77952.1%
- 2ARJAN ALIIndependent · IND5,80420.4%
- 3PATNI, NITAI CHANDIndependent · IND4,81417.0%
- 4BARMAN, ANIL KUMAR (ST)Praja Socialist Party · PSP1,8626.6%
- 5DEY, SUSHILIndependent · IND1,1254.0%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +13.1%
- INC share
- 40.1% → 52.1%
- IND share
- 21.5% → 20.4%
- Turnout
- — → —