Constituency
4. Sikta
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-SIKTA
INC 42.8%won by 12.2%CPI 30.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 23.1% to 12.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- 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
14,392
Margin
1,749
12.15%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1FAZLUR RAHMANIndian National Congress · INC6,16342.8%
- 2KEDARMANI SUKLACommunist Party of India · CPI4,41430.7%
- 3FARYADUL AZAMPraja Socialist Party · PSP2,49117.3%
- 4GANGA PRASADIndependent · IND1,3249.2%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −11.0%
- INC share
- 49.0% → 42.8%
- CPI share
- 25.9% → 30.7%
- Turnout
- — → —