Constituency
104. Forbesganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-FORBESGANJ
INC 23.6%won by 0.8%INC 22.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 22.7% to 0.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 31.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 46.4% between them, down from 87.1% — 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
95,367
Margin
752
0.79%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1DUMAR LAL BAITHA (SC)Indian National Congress · INC22,50423.6%
- 2SHITAL PD. GUPTAIndian National Congress · INC21,75222.8%
- 3SARJU MISHRAIndependent · IND17,62418.5%
- 4BABU LALL RASHIDEO (SC)Independent · IND8,9619.4%
- 5BHOJRAJ MAHTOBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS8,2078.6%
- 6ADHIKLAL PASWAN (SC)Bharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS6,1126.4%
- 7SHAMSUL ALAMPraja Socialist Party · PSP4,1374.3%
- 8RAMANAND MUSHAR (SC)CNPSPJP · CNPSPJP4,0254.2%
- 9ADHIK LALL SINGH (SC)Praja Socialist Party · PSP2,0452.1%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–INC swing
- 0.0%
- INC share
- 54.9% → 23.6%
- INC share
- 54.9% → 23.6%
- Turnout
- — → —