Constituency
40. Parsa
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-PARSA
INC 61.1%won by 22.1%PSP 38.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 30.0% to 22.1%.
- New challengerPraja Socialist Party (PSP) finished second with 38.9% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 78.1% — 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
34,080
Margin
7,538
22.12%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1DAROGA PD. RAIIndian National Congress · INC20,80961.1%
- 2SUKHDEO NARAIN SINGHPraja Socialist Party · PSP13,27138.9%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–PSP swing
- −31.9%
- INC share
- 54.1% → 61.1%
- PSP share
- 0.0% → 38.9%
- Turnout
- — → —