Election
Constituency

259. Mandar

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1957

BR-MANDAR

JHP 22.3%won by 2.5%JHP 19.8%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Jai Hind Party (JHP), which now leads by 2.5%.

  • JHP vote shareJHP went from 30.2% to 22.3% of the vote here (−7.9%).
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 42.1% between them, down from 82.2% — the field split more ways.

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
75,662
Margin
1,856
2.45%

Candidates

12 contested · winner JHP
  1. 1RAM VILAS PRASADJai Hind Party · JHP16,84722.3%
  2. 2IGNES KUJUR (ST)Jai Hind Party · JHP14,99119.8%
  3. 3YOGENDRA NATH TEWARIIndian National Congress · INC10,79514.3%
  4. 4SOMA BHAGAT (ST)Indian National Congress · INC10,07413.3%
  5. 5BHAGAT DEO SINGHCNPSPJP · CNPSPJP7,74810.2%
  6. 6ALI IMAMIndependent · IND3,6784.9%
  7. 7SOMNATH ORAONIndependent · IND2,9153.9%
  8. 8GANESH SAHUIndependent · IND2,2473.0%
  9. 9JIWDHAN BHAGATIndependent · IND1,9142.5%
  10. 10THEODORE PANNAIndependent · IND1,7882.4%
  11. 11RAMCHAND TEWARIIndependent · IND1,6042.1%
  12. 12CHANDA ORAONIndependent · IND1,0611.4%

Since 1951

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
JHPflipped
JHP–JHP swing
0.0%
JHP share
30.2% → 22.3%
JHP share
30.2% → 22.3%
Turnout
— → —
258. Lohardaga260. Latehar
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