Constituency
215. Nawada
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-NAWADA
INC 33.9%won by 2.7%PSP 31.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.6% to 2.7%.
- New challengerPraja Socialist Party (PSP) finished second with 31.2% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 65.0% of the vote between them, up from 34.1% — 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
23,655
Margin
643
2.72%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1MANZOOR AHMADIndian National Congress · INC8,01533.9%
- 2TEK NARAYAN PRASAD YADAVPraja Socialist Party · PSP7,37231.2%
- 3ALAKH NARAYAN VERMAIndependent · IND4,37718.5%
- 4DHANUKDHARI SINGHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS3,89116.4%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–PSP swing
- −18.1%
- INC share
- 20.8% → 33.9%
- PSP share
- 0.0% → 31.2%
- Turnout
- — → —