Constituency
56. Katra North
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-KATRA-NORTH
PSP 37.2%won by 7.6%INC 29.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Praja Socialist Party (PSP), which now leads by 7.6%.
- PSP vote sharePSP went from 0.0% to 37.2% of the vote here (+37.2%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.8% between them, down from 91.4% — the field split more ways.
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
34,753
Margin
2,646
7.61%
Candidates
5 contested · winner PSP- 1RAM BRIKSHA BENIPURIPraja Socialist Party · PSP12,92537.2%
- 2RAM BABU SINHAIndian National Congress · INC10,27929.6%
- 3ANZAR AHMAD KARIMIIndependent · IND3,92911.3%
- 4JAI JAI KANT THAKURIndependent · IND3,83211.0%
- 5DANI LALIndependent · IND3,78810.9%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- PSPflipped
- PSP–INC swing
- +60.8%
- PSP share
- 0.0% → 37.2%
- INC share
- 53.2% → 29.6%
- Turnout
- — → —