Constituency
41. Sonepur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-SONEPUR
IND 31.4%won by 1.0%CPI 30.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 1.0%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 21.2% to 31.4% of the vote here (+10.2%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 61.8% of the vote between them, up from 53.0% — 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
28,441
Margin
295
1.04%
Candidates
5 contested · winner IND- 1RAM BINOD SINGHIndependent · IND8,92931.4%
- 2SHEOBACHAN SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI8,63430.4%
- 3JAGDISH SHARMAIndian National Congress · INC7,27525.6%
- 4JAMUNA PRASADIndependent · IND2,5699.0%
- 5DEOKINANDAN SINGHIndependent · IND1,0343.6%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–CPI swing
- +3.0%
- IND share
- 21.2% → 31.4%
- CPI share
- 23.1% → 30.4%
- Turnout
- — → —