Constituency
68. Benipatti West
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-BENIPATTI-WEST
INC 55.3%won by 10.6%CPI 44.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.7% to 10.6%.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 44.7% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 66.5% — 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
34,987
Margin
3,717
10.62%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1CHHOTE PD. SINGHIndian National Congress · INC19,35255.3%
- 2TEJ NARAIN JHACommunist Party of India · CPI15,63544.7%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −33.0%
- INC share
- 43.6% → 55.3%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 44.7%
- Turnout
- — → —