Constituency
261. Daltonganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-DALTONGANJ
PSP 31.0%won by 1.7%JHP 29.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Praja Socialist Party (PSP), which now leads by 1.7%.
- PSP vote sharePSP went from 0.0% to 31.0% of the vote here (+31.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 60.2% of the vote between them, up from 51.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
22,751
Margin
388
1.71%
Candidates
5 contested · winner PSP- 1UMESHWARI CHARANPraja Socialist Party · PSP7,04731.0%
- 2RAJESHWAR PRASAD AGARWALJai Hind Party · JHP6,65929.3%
- 3AMIYA KUMAR GHOSHIndian National Congress · INC5,75125.3%
- 4CHINTAMANI DUBEYCNPSPJP · CNPSPJP2,94913.0%
- 5HARIHAR SINGH (ST)Independent · IND3451.5%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- PSPflipped
- PSP–JHP swing
- +18.4%
- PSP share
- 0.0% → 31.0%
- JHP share
- 16.7% → 29.3%
- Turnout
- — → —