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Bihar · Assembly Constituency 177 · 19512 seats · 1 SC

Sawarbazar and Sonbarsa

Winner — 1951

UPENDRA NARAIN SINGH
Also elected — same seat
JAGESHWAR HAZARA
INC· 11,116 votes
INC 22.1%SP 21.4%6 others 56.5%
Votes
14,572
22.1% share
Winning margin
463
0.7% of votes
Total candidates
8
Turnout
37.0%
of 89,168

Sawarbazar and Sonbarsa was decided by a razor-thin margin of 0.7% — fewer than 463 votes separated winner from runner-up.

Seat history

All Candidates

8 total
#CandidatePartyVotesShare
1
UPENDRA NARAIN SINGH
14,57222.1%
2
AWADH BIHARI YADAV
14,10921.4%
3
JAGESHWAR HAZARA
11,11616.9%
4
TULMOHAN RAM
10,84816.4%
5
BATESHWAR JHA
IND
5,3128.1%
6
CHANCHLAL PRASAD SINGH
IND
4,8907.4%
7
SHIBADHIN SINGH
IND
3,0374.6%
8
PARMESHWAR PRASAD SINGH
KMPP
2,0573.1%

Affidavit details — declared assets, criminal cases and education — aren't available for this seat yet. The results above are complete; only the candidate-affidavit layer is missing.

Low turnout (218th), a comfortable margin, a two-to-three-way race.

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How safe is this seat?

SEAT
lean
0.7%
MORE COMPETITIVESAFER
mean 13.7% · min 0.2% · max 41.5%

How contested is turnout?

SEAT
60%
lowerhigher
218th of 243

How crowded is the field?

SEAT
2.46
fewer partiesmore parties
157th of 243

How much NOTA?

SEAT
2.8%
lowerhigher
23rd of 243

Where does the house stand?

SEAT
330 seats · 166 majority

How did the vote split?

SEAT
2.46EFFECTIVE PARTIES
INC 22.1%SP 21.4%INC 16.9%SP 16.4%IND 8.1%IND 7.4%OTH 7.7%

Who ran, on record?

SEAT
NOT YET COMPUTED

A dense, urban district — less literate than the national rate.

Who lives here?

DISTRICTCENSUS 2011
Population
28,77,653
Density
1222 / km²
Sex ratio
922 ♀/1000 ♂
Area
2,355 km²
SC population21.1%
ST population0.1%

What faith is practised here?

DISTRICTCENSUS 2011 C-01
93%HINDU
Hindu 92.8%Muslim 6.9%Other 0.3%

How developed is it?

DISTRICTCENSUS 2011
Tap water7.9%
Electricity20.8%
Sanitation30.7%

How healthy is it?

DISTRICTNFHS-5 · 2019-21
Institutional births80.3%
Children fully vaccinated75.2%
Children stunted (under 5)▼ LOWER IS BETTER42.6%
Children underweight (under 5)46.7%
Women anaemic (15-49)▼ LOWER IS BETTER71.0%
Women literate56.1%
Women married before 18▼ LOWER IS BETTER42.0%
Clean cooking fuel41.0%
Health insurance12.8%

What's nearby?

SEATWIKIDATA · ASI
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Landmark data: Wikidata (CC0) · ASI (Government of India, official). Images: Wikimedia Commons (individual CC / public-domain licenses, see each file). Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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