Constituency
96. Pratapganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-PRATAPGANJ
INC 37.4%won by 11.7%IND 25.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 39.4% to 11.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 30.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Samajwadi Party (SP) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 63.1% between them, down from 96.2% — 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
23,383
Margin
2,739
11.71%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1KHUB LAL MAHTOIndian National Congress · INC8,75137.4%
- 2ASSESHWAR GEOTIndependent · IND6,01225.7%
- 3TRILOKI NATH MISHRAIndependent · IND4,91121.0%
- 4RAJENDRA PRASAD THAKURPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,8187.8%
- 5MOTI LAL BHUSKULIAIndependent · IND9644.1%
- 6RAMJI CHAUDHRYIndependent · IND9274.0%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −52.3%
- INC share
- 67.8% → 37.4%
- IND share
- 3.8% → 25.7%
- Turnout
- — → —