Constituency
97. Tribeniganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-TRIBENIGANJ
INC 26.4%won by 0.4%INC 26.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 0.2% to 0.4%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 52.4% of the vote between them, up from 45.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 254 votes (0.38%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- Multi-cornered5 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
67,687
Margin
254
0.38%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1TULMOHAN RAM (SC)Indian National Congress · INC17,85526.4%
- 2YOGESHWAR JHAIndian National Congress · INC17,60126.0%
- 3ANUPLAL YADAVIndependent · IND12,53418.5%
- 4LAKSHMI SARDAR (SC)Independent · IND8,70012.9%
- 5KAMLA KANT MANDALPraja Socialist Party · PSP4,4876.6%
- 6GANESH HAJRA (SC)Independent · IND2,8564.2%
- 7UTTIM SAFIIndependent · IND2,0933.1%
- 8JUGAL CHAMARIndependent · IND1,5612.3%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–INC swing
- 0.0%
- INC share
- 23.1% → 26.4%
- INC share
- 23.1% → 26.4%
- Turnout
- — → —