Constituency
231. Deoria South
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1957
UP-DEORIA-SOUTH
INC 37.5%won by 1.4%IND 36.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 1.8% to 1.4%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Samajwadi Party (SP) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 73.5% of the vote between them, up from 67.7% — 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
30,548
Margin
424
1.39%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1DEEP NARAINIndian National Congress · INC11,44337.5%
- 2KISHUNAIndependent · IND11,01936.1%
- 3LAXMI KANTBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS4,31414.1%
- 4SITA RAMPraja Socialist Party · PSP2,4608.1%
- 5ARJUNRashtriya Rashtrawadi Party · RRP1,3124.3%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −29.5%
- INC share
- 34.7% → 37.5%
- IND share
- 3.8% → 36.1%
- Turnout
- — → —