Constituency
290. Bikapur West
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1957
UP-BIKAPUR-WEST
INC 22.5%won by 1.3%INC 21.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 26.3% to 1.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 28.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 43.7% between them, down from 76.1% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
80,874
Margin
1,047
1.29%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1BRIJ BASI LALIndian National Congress · INC18,18622.5%
- 2NARAIN DAS (SC)Indian National Congress · INC17,13921.2%
- 3HARI NATHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS15,77019.5%
- 4DHOOM PRASAD (SC)Bharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS15,08718.7%
- 5RAJ BALICommunist Party of India · CPI7,4379.2%
- 6MITHI LAL (SC)Communist Party of India · CPI7,2559.0%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–INC swing
- 0.0%
- INC share
- 51.2% → 22.5%
- INC share
- 51.2% → 22.5%
- Turnout
- — → —