Constituency
7. Bettiah
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-BETTIAH
INC 36.7%won by 0.6%INC 36.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 57.9% to 0.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 34.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.7% between them, down from 84.3% — the field split more ways.
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
65,541
Margin
419
0.64%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1JAYA NARAYAN PRASADIndian National Congress · INC24,03536.7%
- 2JAGANNATH PD. SWATANTRA (SC)Indian National Congress · INC23,61636.0%
- 3BHAWANI PRASADBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS6,76110.3%
- 4JAGDISH NARAIN HARIJAN (SC)Bharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS3,9026.0%
- 5ABDUL KHAIRPraja Socialist Party · PSP3,6515.6%
- 6BINDESHWARI PD. SAHIIndependent · IND3,5765.5%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–INC swing
- 0.0%
- INC share
- 71.1% → 36.7%
- INC share
- 71.1% → 36.7%
- Turnout
- — → —