Constituency
197. Arwal
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-ARWAL
INC 33.3%won by 8.9%CPI 24.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samajwadi Party (SP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 8.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 13.8% to 33.3% of the vote here (+19.6%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 24.4% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 57.7% between them, down from 71.6% — 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
23,303
Margin
2,078
8.92%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1BUDHAN MEHTAIndian National Congress · INC7,76433.3%
- 2SHAH MOHAMMED ZONAIR SAHEBCommunist Party of India · CPI5,68624.4%
- 3JHALAKDEO SINGHCNPSPJP · CNPSPJP4,70720.2%
- 4BINDESHWARI PARASAD SINGHIndependent · IND2,1899.4%
- 5GADANI SINGHPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,8848.1%
- 6PANDIT CHANDERDEO SHARMAIndependent · IND1,0734.6%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- SP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- −4.8%
- INC share
- 13.8% → 33.3%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 24.4%
- Turnout
- — → —