Constituency
63. Sonabarsa
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-SONABARSA
IND 33.7%won by 12.9%INC 20.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.1% to 12.9%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 54.6% between them, down from 72.1% — the field split more ways.
- 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
36,811
Margin
4,732
12.85%
Candidates
6 contested · winner IND- 1SINGHESHWAR RAIIndependent · IND12,42233.7%
- 2LALDHARI MAHTOIndian National Congress · INC7,69020.9%
- 3MAKHAN PURBEYIndependent · IND7,49820.4%
- 4RAMBARAN SINGHPraja Socialist Party · PSP7,19419.5%
- 5DEONANDAN YADAVIndependent · IND1,3303.6%
- 6RAMNANDIndependent · IND6771.8%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–INC swing
- +11.8%
- IND share
- 36.6% → 33.7%
- INC share
- 35.5% → 20.9%
- Turnout
- — → —