Constituency
24. Siwan
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-SIWAN
INC 49.2%won by 24.6%BJS 24.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.8% to 24.6%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 73.7% of the vote between them, up from 49.5% — 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
22,242
Margin
5,469
24.59%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INCSince 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- −2.1%
- INC share
- 30.6% → 49.2%
- BJS share
- 4.0% → 24.6%
- Turnout
- — → —