Constituency
58. Runisaidpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-RUNISAIDPUR
INC 45.7%won by 8.5%PSP 37.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 8.5%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 31.8% to 45.7% of the vote here (+13.8%).
- New challengerPraja Socialist Party (PSP) finished second with 37.1% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 82.8% of the vote between them, up from 66.3% — 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
35,785
Margin
3,044
8.51%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1TRIBENI PD. SINGHIndian National Congress · INC16,33745.7%
- 2VIVEKANAND GIRIPraja Socialist Party · PSP13,29337.1%
- 3RAMCHANDRA PD. SINGHIndependent · IND6,15517.2%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–PSP swing
- −23.3%
- INC share
- 31.8% → 45.7%
- PSP share
- 0.0% → 37.1%
- Turnout
- — → —