Constituency
247. Tamar
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-TAMAR
JHP 50.5%won by 5.9%INC 44.6%
What changed here
DerivedJai Hind Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 48.0% to 5.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 13.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.1% of the vote between them, up from 80.3% — 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
19,601
Margin
1,165
5.94%
Candidates
4 contested · winner JHPSince 1951
Derived- Winner then
- JHP
- Winner now
- JHP
- JHP–INC swing
- −42.1%
- JHP share
- 64.2% → 50.5%
- INC share
- 16.1% → 44.6%
- Turnout
- — → —