Constituency
149. Monghyr
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-MONGHYR
INC 54.2%won by 30.9%BJS 23.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 24.3% to 30.9%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from KMPP (KMPP) to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 77.5% of the vote between them, up from 70.6% — 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
35,030
Margin
10,817
30.88%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1NIRPAD MUKHERJIIndian National Congress · INC18,98854.2%
- 2JAGADAMBI PRASAD YADAVBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS8,17123.3%
- 3DAMODAR PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND4,63013.2%
- 4BISHNU PRASAD THAKURPraja Socialist Party · PSP2,6797.6%
- 5ABDUL KABIRIndependent · IND5621.6%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- −4.1%
- INC share
- 47.5% → 54.2%
- BJS share
- 12.5% → 23.3%
- Turnout
- — → —