Constituency
116. Kadwa
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-KADWA
INC 42.1%won by 27.6%IND 14.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 19.8% to 27.6%.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered6 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
22,486
Margin
6,206
27.60%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1MOHIUDDIN MOKHTARIndian National Congress · INC9,45842.1%
- 2SAFIQUAL HAQUEIndependent · IND3,25214.5%
- 3BHAGWAN SHAHIndependent · IND2,69812.0%
- 4ARUN GOPAL JHAPraja Socialist Party · PSP2,49511.1%
- 5PARMESHWARI MANDALCommunist Party of India · CPI2,41410.7%
- 6MOHAMMD ABDUL HASSAIN SEIKHIndependent · IND2,1699.6%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +7.8%
- INC share
- 40.2% → 42.1%
- IND share
- 20.3% → 14.5%
- Turnout
- — → —