Constituency
242. Manjari
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-MANJARI
JHP 52.0%won by 13.5%IND 38.4%
What changed here
DerivedJai Hind Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 51.7% to 13.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 23.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 90.4% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
24,377
Margin
3,303
13.55%
Candidates
3 contested · winner JHP- 1SAMAD SANATAN (ST)Jai Hind Party · JHP12,66652.0%
- 2PURNA CHANDRA BIRUA (ST)Independent · IND9,36338.4%
- 3SANATAN TOMSOY (ST)Independent · IND2,3489.6%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- JHP
- Winner now
- JHP
- JHP–IND swing
- −38.1%
- JHP share
- 75.8% → 52.0%
- IND share
- 24.2% → 38.4%
- Turnout
- — → —