Constituency
3. Shikarpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-SHIKARPUR
PSP 46.5%won by 2.1%INC 44.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Praja Socialist Party (PSP), which now leads by 2.1%.
- PSP vote sharePSP went from 0.0% to 46.5% of the vote here (+46.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.8% of the vote between them, up from 52.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
17,640
Margin
379
2.15%
Candidates
3 contested · winner PSP- 1SINHESHWAR PD. VERMAPraja Socialist Party · PSP8,19946.5%
- 2KAMALNATH TEWARYIndian National Congress · INC7,82044.3%
- 3BIR SINGHIndependent · IND1,6219.2%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- PSPflipped
- PSP–INC swing
- +28.4%
- PSP share
- 0.0% → 46.5%
- INC share
- 26.3% → 44.3%
- Turnout
- — → —