Election
Constituency

236. Ghatsila

Community mirror

Bihar Assembly Election, 1957

BR-GHATSILA

JHP 17.8%won by 0.3%JHP 17.5%

What changed here

Derived

Jai Hind Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 1.2% to 0.3%.

  • Knife-edgeDecided by 283 votes (0.29%) — among the closest results anywhere.
  • Multi-cornered7 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

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

Electorate
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
98,040
Margin
283
0.29%

Candidates

9 contested · winner JHP
  1. 1SHISHIR KUMAR MAHTOJai Hind Party · JHP17,43717.8%
  2. 2SHYAM CHARAN MURMU (ST)Jai Hind Party · JHP17,15417.5%
  3. 3MRITYUN JAY DASIndian National Congress · INC17,11417.5%
  4. 4BANKIM CHANDRA CHAKRABARTYIndependent · IND15,22215.5%
  5. 5GHANIRAM HANSDAIndian National Congress · INC12,28512.5%
  6. 6BASTA SORENCommunist Party of India · CPI6,8026.9%
  7. 7GOPESHWAR MAHTOIndependent · IND4,9695.1%
  8. 8HARADHAN GHOSHIndependent · IND4,0204.1%
  9. 9HIREN SARKARIndependent · IND3,0373.1%

Since 1951

Derived
Winner then
JHP
Winner now
JHP
JHP–JHP swing
0.0%
JHP share
19.1% → 17.8%
JHP share
19.1% → 17.8%
Turnout
— → —
235. Tundi237. Potka
Back to the BR Assembly 1957 explorer