Constituency
45. Patepur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-PATEPUR
INC 35.5%won by 6.8%PSP 28.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samajwadi Party (SP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 6.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 23.3% to 35.5% of the vote here (+12.1%).
- New challengerPraja Socialist Party (PSP) finished second with 28.7% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 64.1% of the vote between them, up from 56.0% — 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
43,970
Margin
2,985
6.79%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1MANZUR AHSAN AJAZIIndian National Congress · INC15,58935.5%
- 2KAMLESH RAIPraja Socialist Party · PSP12,60428.7%
- 3JADULAL DEVCNPSPJP · CNPSPJP8,92420.3%
- 4RAMANAND SINGHIndependent · IND4,1039.3%
- 5BIJOY DASIndependent · IND2,7506.3%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- SP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–PSP swing
- −16.5%
- INC share
- 23.3% → 35.5%
- PSP share
- 0.0% → 28.7%
- Turnout
- — → —