Constituency
70. Jainagar
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-JAINAGAR
INC 26.4%won by 3.3%INC 23.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.6% to 3.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 21.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 49.6% between them, down from 77.0% — 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
1,08,905
Margin
3,583
3.29%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1DEONARAIN YADAVIndian National Congress · INC28,78326.4%
- 2RAMKRISHAN MAHTO (SC)Indian National Congress · INC25,20023.1%
- 3BAIYDANATH YADAVCommunist Party of India · CPI19,03617.5%
- 4SARYUG PASWAN (SC)Praja Socialist Party · PSP10,4849.6%
- 5DHANESHWAR ROYIndependent · IND7,9767.3%
- 6SHUSHIL NARAIN THAKURPraja Socialist Party · PSP6,9896.4%
- 7GYANCHAND RAMIndependent · IND6,8326.3%
- 8SUKHDEO JHAIndependent · IND3,6053.3%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–INC swing
- 0.0%
- INC share
- 48.3% → 26.4%
- INC share
- 48.3% → 26.4%
- Turnout
- — → —