Constituency
161. Mokamah
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-MOKAMAH
INC 40.9%won by 1.3%IND 39.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.3% to 1.3%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 80.5% of the vote between them, up from 63.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
31,163
Margin
417
1.34%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1JAGDISH NARAIN SINGHIndian National Congress · INC12,75740.9%
- 2JAMUNA NANDAN PRASADIndependent · IND12,34039.6%
- 3DAYANAND SHARMAPraja Socialist Party · PSP3,93712.6%
- 4KAPURI RAM (SC)Independent · IND2,1296.8%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −12.0%
- INC share
- 38.4% → 40.9%
- IND share
- 25.1% → 39.6%
- Turnout
- — → —