Election
Constituency

42. Hajipur

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1957

BR-HAJIPUR

INC 44.1%won by 20.3%IND 23.8%

What changed here

Derived

Indian 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
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
35,812
Margin
7,264
20.28%

Since 1951

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INCIND swing
+18.7%
INC share
29.2% 44.1%
IND share
27.6% 23.8%
Turnout