Constituency
34. North Salmara
Community mirrorAssam Assembly Election, 1957
AS-NORTH-SALMARA
INC 30.3%won by 1.7%INC 28.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.2% to 1.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 20.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 58.9% between them, down from 94.7% — the field split more ways.
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
78,235
Margin
1,362
1.74%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1DAS, HARESWARIndian National Congress · INC23,73930.3%
- 2DR. DAS, GHANASHYAM (SC)Indian National Congress · INC22,37728.6%
- 3DAS, RAM PRASADIndependent · IND16,46021.0%
- 4DAS, BHUPENDRA CHANDRA (SC)Independent · IND5,6057.2%
- 5CHOUDHURI GAJENDRA CHANDRAIndependent · IND5,1926.6%
- 6BANIKYA, KANDARPA NARAYAN (SC)Independent · IND4,8626.2%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–INC swing
- 0.0%
- INC share
- 51.0% → 30.3%
- INC share
- 51.0% → 30.3%
- Turnout
- — → —