Constituency
42. Hajipur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-HAJIPUR
INC 44.1%won by 20.3%IND 23.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.6% to 20.3%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 67.9% of the vote between them, up from 56.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- 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
35,812
Margin
7,264
20.28%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1DIP NARAIN SINHAIndian National Congress · INC15,78944.1%
- 2AMIR SINGHIndependent · IND8,52523.8%
- 3KISHORI PRASANA SINHACommunist Party of India · CPI7,23520.2%
- 4BISHWANATH PRASAD SINGHPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,7825.0%
- 5DEVI PRASAD SINHACNPSPJP · CNPSPJP1,6624.6%
- 6RAM SWARUP PRASAD SINHAIndependent · IND8192.3%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +18.7%
- INC share
- 29.2% → 44.1%
- IND share
- 27.6% → 23.8%
- Turnout
- — → —