Constituency
13. Patabi
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-PATABI
INC 44.0%won by 18.4%IND 25.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 27.9% to 18.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Samajwadi Party (SP) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.5% between them, down from 80.6% — 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
25,585
Margin
4,709
18.41%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1BIBHISHAN KUMARIndian National Congress · INC11,24844.0%
- 2VINDHYACHAL SINGHIndependent · IND6,53925.6%
- 3BANWARILAL CHAUDHARYIndependent · IND4,05615.9%
- 4PRASIDH NARAIN VERMAPraja Socialist Party · PSP3,74214.6%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −16.4%
- INC share
- 54.2% → 44.0%
- IND share
- 19.4% → 25.6%
- Turnout
- — → —