Constituency
46. Mahua
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-MAHUA
INC 21.0%won by 0.4%INC 20.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 4.9% to 0.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 424 votes (0.43%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- Multi-cornered7 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
97,898
Margin
424
0.43%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1SHEONANDAN RAM (SC)Indian National Congress · INC20,51121.0%
- 2BINDESHWARI PD. VERMAIndian National Congress · INC20,08720.5%
- 3AKSHAIBAT RAIIndependent · IND16,92417.3%
- 4BINJADI BHAGAT (SC)Independent · IND9,98910.2%
- 5SATYA NARAYAN SINHACNPSPJP · CNPSPJP8,1488.3%
- 6PHUDENI PRASAD (SC)Praja Socialist Party · PSP7,8168.0%
- 7SURAJ NARAIN CHOWDHARYPraja Socialist Party · PSP6,2896.4%
- 8RAM PRASIDH SINGHIndependent · IND4,4584.6%
- 9SUKHILAL DAS (SC)Independent · IND3,6763.8%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–INC swing
- 0.0%
- INC share
- 24.7% → 21.0%
- INC share
- 24.7% → 21.0%
- Turnout
- — → —