Constituency
174. Dinapur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-DINAPUR
INC 29.2%won by 0.8%IND 28.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.6% to 0.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 21.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Samajwadi Party (SP) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 57.6% between them, down from 79.1% — the field split more ways.
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
21,384
Margin
177
0.83%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1JAGAT NARAYAN LALIndian National Congress · INC6,25129.2%
- 2RADHEY SHYAM SINGHIndependent · IND6,07428.4%
- 3PURNO LALIndependent · IND4,86222.7%
- 4RAMSEWAK SINHAIndependent · IND3,26815.3%
- 5BHOLA NATH MEHRACNPSPJP · CNPSPJP9294.3%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −28.6%
- INC share
- 50.3% → 29.2%
- IND share
- 20.9% → 28.4%
- Turnout
- — → —