Constituency
125. Jamtara
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-JAMTARA
JHP 46.6%won by 18.4%IND 28.2%
What changed here
DerivedJai Hind Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 17.8% to 18.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 28.2% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.7% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
39,036
Margin
7,184
18.40%
Candidates
4 contested · winner JHP- 1SATRUGHNA BESRAJai Hind Party · JHP18,17646.6%
- 2KRISHNA GOPAL DASIndependent · IND10,99228.2%
- 3ABDUL HAMIDIndian National Congress · INC8,73122.4%
- 4KAPILDEO MURMU (ST)Independent · IND1,1372.9%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- JHP
- Winner now
- JHP
- JHP–IND swing
- −40.5%
- JHP share
- 58.9% → 46.6%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 28.2%
- Turnout
- — → —