Constituency
177. Paliganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-PALIGANJ
PSP 49.5%won by 2.1%INC 47.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Praja Socialist Party (PSP), which now leads by 2.1%.
- PSP vote sharePSP went from 0.0% to 49.5% of the vote here (+49.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.0% of the vote between them, up from 53.6% — 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
40,296
Margin
861
2.14%
Candidates
3 contested · winner PSP- 1CHANDRADEO PD. VERMAPraja Socialist Party · PSP19,96549.5%
- 2RAMLAKHAN SINGH YADAVIndian National Congress · INC19,10447.4%
- 3HARDWAR SINGHIndependent · IND1,2273.0%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- PSPflipped
- PSP–INC swing
- +36.2%
- PSP share
- 0.0% → 49.5%
- INC share
- 34.1% → 47.4%
- Turnout
- — → —