Constituency
15. Kesaria
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-KESARIA
INC 50.4%won by 0.8%CPI 49.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 38.9% to 0.8%.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 49.6% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 63.6% — 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
22,098
Margin
170
0.77%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1PRABHAWATI GUPTAIndian National Congress · INC11,13450.4%
- 2PITAMBAR SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI10,96449.6%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −50.5%
- INC share
- 51.3% → 50.4%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 49.6%
- Turnout
- — → —