Constituency
146. Surajgarha
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-SURAJGARHA
CPI 49.8%won by 8.6%INC 41.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 8.6%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 7.9% to 49.8% of the vote here (+41.9%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.0% of the vote between them, up from 44.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
38,455
Margin
3,289
8.55%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1KARYANAND SHARMACommunist Party of India · CPI19,14749.8%
- 2RAJESHWAR PRASAD SINGHIndian National Congress · INC15,85841.2%
- 3ANIRUDH PRASAD MAHTONIndependent · IND3,4509.0%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +23.1%
- CPI share
- 7.9% → 49.8%
- INC share
- 22.5% → 41.2%
- Turnout
- — → —