Constituency
189. Sasaram
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-SASARAM
PSP 24.7%won by 3.5%INC 21.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Praja Socialist Party (PSP), which now leads by 3.5%.
- PSP vote sharePSP went from 0.0% to 24.7% of the vote here (+24.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 46.0% of the vote between them, up from 31.3% — 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
1,16,915
Margin
4,034
3.45%
Candidates
8 contested · winner PSP- 1BIPIN BEHARI SINHAPraja Socialist Party · PSP28,90824.7%
- 2JAGANATH SINGHIndian National Congress · INC24,87421.3%
- 3RAMADHAR DUSADH (SC)Praja Socialist Party · PSP19,85717.0%
- 4SRI GOVIND CHAMAR (SC)Indian National Congress · INC15,39913.2%
- 5RAMBACHAN MAHTOIndependent · IND8,8427.6%
- 6SAHDEO PD. CHAUDHARYCommunist Party of India · CPI8,5857.3%
- 7JIT NARAIN SINGHIndependent · IND7,9606.8%
- 8CHATURGUN DUSADIndependent · IND2,4902.1%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- PSPflipped
- PSP–INC swing
- +20.4%
- PSP share
- 0.0% → 24.7%
- INC share
- 16.9% → 21.3%
- Turnout
- — → —