Constituency
3. Dharamsala
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1957
PB-DHARAMSALA
INC 65.5%won by 31.0%IND 34.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 48.2% to 31.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (CPI) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 92.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
25,202
Margin
7,808
30.98%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1HARI RAMIndian National Congress · INC16,50565.5%
- 2DALIP SINGHIndependent · IND8,69734.5%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −35.9%
- INC share
- 70.6% → 65.5%
- IND share
- 3.7% → 34.5%
- Turnout
- — → —