Constituency
148. Kharagpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-KHARAGPUR
INC 54.2%won by 31.1%PSP 23.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 13.5% to 31.1%.
- New challengerPraja Socialist Party (PSP) finished second with 23.1% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 77.4% of the vote between them, up from 68.6% — 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
33,756
Margin
10,495
31.09%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1NARENDRA PRASAD SINGHIndian National Congress · INC18,30854.2%
- 2SHARWAN KUMAR YADAVPraja Socialist Party · PSP7,81323.1%
- 3AJODHYA PRASAD SAHIndependent · IND4,25712.6%
- 4RAMDHANI PD. MANDALIndependent · IND3,37810.0%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–PSP swing
- −9.9%
- INC share
- 41.0% → 54.2%
- PSP share
- 0.0% → 23.1%
- Turnout
- — → —