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127. Deoghar

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1957

BR-DEOGHAR

INC 21.1%won by 2.8%INC 18.3%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: FBLMG (FBLMG) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 2.8%.

  • INC vote shareINC went from 28.7% to 21.1% of the vote here (−7.6%).
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 39.5% between them, down from 88.8% — the field split more ways.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
86,195
Margin
2,435
2.82%

Candidates

11 contested · winner INC
  1. 1SHAILBALA ROY (SC)Indian National Congress · INC18,22521.1%
  2. 2MANGULAL DAS (SC)Indian National Congress · INC15,79018.3%
  3. 3AKLA DEVICNPSPJP · CNPSPJP10,60412.3%
  4. 4HARKHU MAHRA (SC)CNPSPJP · CNPSPJP9,88811.5%
  5. 5GOKUL MAHRA (SC)Jai Hind Party · JHP8,90910.3%
  6. 6BRAJENDRA NATH SAHAYBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS5,9326.9%
  7. 7BIDESHI MAHRA (SC)Bharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS5,1235.9%
  8. 8LAXMI NARAYAN THAKURIndependent · IND4,2284.9%
  9. 9KRISHNA PRASAD SAHPraja Socialist Party · PSP3,5004.1%
  10. 10NAMITA SENGUPTAIndependent · IND2,1712.5%
  11. 11NEPAL DAS (SC)Independent · IND1,8252.1%

Since 1951

Derived
Winner then
FBLMG
Winner now
INCflipped
INC–INC swing
0.0%
INC share
28.7% → 21.1%
INC share
28.7% → 21.1%
Turnout
— → —
126. Sarath128. Dumka
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