Constituency
9. Adapur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-ADAPUR
IND 29.3%won by 4.6%PSP 24.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 4.6%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 5.8% to 29.3% of the vote here (+23.5%).
- New challengerPraja Socialist Party (PSP) finished second with 24.7% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 54.0% between them, down from 90.6% — 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
24,209
Margin
1,118
4.62%
Candidates
5 contested · winner IND- 1BRAJNANDAN SHARMAIndependent · IND7,09329.3%
- 2RAMBARN PRASADPraja Socialist Party · PSP5,97524.7%
- 3RAMSUNDER TEWARIIndian National Congress · INC5,39622.3%
- 4M.A RAHMANIndependent · IND4,93120.4%
- 5BANARSHI PRASAD CHAUDHARYCNPSPJP · CNPSPJP8143.4%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–PSP swing
- −1.1%
- IND share
- 5.8% → 29.3%
- PSP share
- 0.0% → 24.7%
- Turnout
- — → —