Constituency
167. Chandi
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-CHANDI
INC 43.3%won by 14.8%IND 28.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 14.9% to 14.8%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 71.8% of the vote between them, up from 61.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered3 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
30,596
Margin
4,516
14.76%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1DEOGAM PRASAD SINGHIndian National Congress · INC13,24043.3%
- 2YUGAL KISHORE PRASADIndependent · IND8,72428.5%
- 3ANYAPURAN PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND8,63228.2%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −0.2%
- INC share
- 38.1% → 43.3%
- IND share
- 23.1% → 28.5%
- Turnout
- — → —