Constituency
37. Baniapur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-BANIAPUR
INC 51.2%won by 23.5%IND 27.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 20.0% to 23.5%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.8% between them, down from 88.3% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
26,712
Margin
6,283
23.52%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1UMA PANDEYIndian National Congress · INC13,66651.2%
- 2SUKHDEO PRASADIndependent · IND7,38327.6%
- 3MURARI OJHAIndependent · IND5,66321.2%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +3.5%
- INC share
- 54.1% → 51.2%
- IND share
- 34.2% → 27.6%
- Turnout
- — → —