Constituency
1. Nurpur
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1957
PB-NURPUR
INC 58.2%won by 37.1%IND 21.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 51.7% to 37.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.2% between them, down from 86.4% — 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
23,624
Margin
8,767
37.11%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1RAM CHANDRAIndian National Congress · INC13,74258.2%
- 2DHANI RAMIndependent · IND4,97521.1%
- 3PURAN SINGHIndependent · IND3,09713.1%
- 4RANDHIR SINGHIndependent · IND1,8107.7%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −23.1%
- INC share
- 69.1% → 58.2%
- IND share
- 8.8% → 21.1%
- Turnout
- — → —