Constituency
209. Bodh Gaya
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-BODH-GAYA
INC 36.3%won by 17.1%IND 19.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.5% to 17.1%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Independent (IND).
- Multi-cornered5 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
18,281
Margin
3,128
17.11%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1SHANTI DEBIIndian National Congress · INC6,63736.3%
- 2BHAGWAT PD. SHARMAIndependent · IND3,50919.2%
- 3RAMCHANDRA YADAVPraja Socialist Party · PSP3,19017.4%
- 4DR. KHUSHAHAL PRASADIndependent · IND2,78115.2%
- 5LEKHA PRASADIndependent · IND1,5298.4%
- 6AKLOO GOPEIndependent · IND6353.5%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +3.6%
- INC share
- 31.0% → 36.3%
- IND share
- 17.6% → 19.2%
- Turnout
- — → —