Constituency
55. Katra South
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-KATRA-SOUTH
INC 45.0%won by 22.4%IND 22.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 16.4% to 22.4%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Samajwadi Party (SP) to Independent (IND).
- Multi-cornered4 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
38,838
Margin
8,689
22.37%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1NITESHWAR PD. SINHAIndian National Congress · INC17,48645.0%
- 2JITENDRA PD. SINHAIndependent · IND8,79722.7%
- 3SONELAL RAIIndependent · IND8,03320.7%
- 4KRISHNADEO NARAIN SINHAPraja Socialist Party · PSP4,52211.6%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −8.2%
- INC share
- 43.8% → 45.0%
- IND share
- 13.2% → 22.7%
- Turnout
- — → —