Constituency
82. Darbhanga North
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-DARBHANGA-NORTH
INC 52.1%won by 23.4%IND 28.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 40.6% to 23.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 80.7% of the vote between them, up from 75.6% — 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
22,350
Margin
5,237
23.43%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1HIRDAI NARAIN CHOUDHRYIndian National Congress · INC11,63552.1%
- 2KUSHESHWAR JHAIndependent · IND6,39828.6%
- 3SEIKH AHSAN AKHTARPraja Socialist Party · PSP4,31719.3%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −17.1%
- INC share
- 58.1% → 52.1%
- IND share
- 17.5% → 28.6%
- Turnout
- — → —