Constituency
31. Basantpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-BASANTPUR
PSP 55.2%won by 18.6%INC 36.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Praja Socialist Party (PSP), which now leads by 18.6%.
- PSP vote sharePSP went from 0.0% to 55.2% of the vote here (+55.2%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.9% of the vote between them, up from 68.5% — 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
28,618
Margin
5,316
18.58%
Candidates
3 contested · winner PSP- 1SABHAPATI SINHAPraja Socialist Party · PSP15,80655.2%
- 2HARI KISHORE PRASADIndian National Congress · INC10,49036.7%
- 3RAMDENI RAIIndependent · IND2,3228.1%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- PSPflipped
- PSP–INC swing
- +58.4%
- PSP share
- 0.0% → 55.2%
- INC share
- 39.8% → 36.7%
- Turnout
- — → —