Election
Constituency

217. Rajauli

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1957

BR-RAJAULI

INC 37.6%won by 8.4%CNPSPJP 29.2%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.0% to 8.4%.

  • New challengerCNPSPJP (CNPSPJP) finished second with 29.2% — it did not contest here in 1951.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 66.8% of the vote between them, up from 56.7% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
21,236
Margin
1,783
8.40%

Candidates

5 contested · winner INC
  1. 1RAMSWAROOP PRASAD YADAVIndian National Congress · INC7,98037.6%
  2. 2JAGAT KISHORE PRASAD NARAYAN SINGHCNPSPJP · CNPSPJP6,19729.2%
  3. 3GANESH SHANKAR VIDYARTHICommunist Party of India · CPI4,97323.4%
  4. 4ZAKIR HUSSAINPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,3196.2%
  5. 5ISWARI PRASADIndependent · IND7673.6%

Since 1951

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INC–CNPSPJP swing
−21.4%
INC share
29.8% → 37.6%
CNPSPJP share
0.0% → 29.2%
Turnout
— → —
216. Warsaliganj218. Gawan
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