Constituency
19. Barauli
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-BARAULI
INC 39.3%won by 0.3%IND 38.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 27.1% to 0.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from KMPP (KMPP) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 78.2% of the vote between them, up from 60.5% — 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
21,831
Margin
73
0.33%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1ABDUL GHAFOORIndian National Congress · INC8,57239.3%
- 2HAZARI SAHIndependent · IND8,49938.9%
- 3KAPILDEO RAIIndependent · IND4,76021.8%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −33.1%
- INC share
- 43.8% → 39.3%
- IND share
- 10.3% → 38.9%
- Turnout
- — → —