Constituency
196. Sahar
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-SAHAR
INC 48.2%won by 25.4%IND 22.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.2% to 25.4%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 70.9% of the vote between them, up from 59.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
22,327
Margin
5,676
25.42%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1SHEO PUJAN RAIIndian National Congress · INC10,75148.2%
- 2RAMSINGHASAN SINGHIndependent · IND5,07522.7%
- 3JOGALEDHARI RAIPraja Socialist Party · PSP3,55915.9%
- 4BABU RAM SINGHCNPSPJP · CNPSPJP1,7357.8%
- 5NATHUNI PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND6262.8%
- 6TOTA DASIndependent · IND5812.6%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +14.3%
- INC share
- 35.2% → 48.2%
- IND share
- 24.1% → 22.7%
- Turnout
- — → —