Constituency
132. Pirpainti
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-PIRPAINTI
INC 34.8%won by 10.8%CPI 24.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.4% to 10.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 24.0% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 58.7% between them, down from 65.7% — 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
32,280
Margin
3,484
10.79%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1RAMJANAM MAHTOIndian National Congress · INC11,21934.8%
- 2AMBIKA PRASADCommunist Party of India · CPI7,73524.0%
- 3NARESH CHANDRA SUMANPraja Socialist Party · PSP4,94815.3%
- 4RAGHUNANDAN YADAVBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS2,0456.3%
- 5SALAMAN SHEIKHIndependent · IND1,5784.9%
- 6MATHURA PRASADIndependent · IND1,4594.5%
- 7SHRI KRISHNA SINGHIndependent · IND1,2583.9%
- 8BISHWANATH MANDALIndependent · IND1,1993.7%
- 9LAKHI PRASAD SHARMAIndependent · IND8392.6%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −32.8%
- INC share
- 43.6% → 34.8%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 24.0%
- Turnout
- — → —