Constituency
8. Rupar
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1957
PB-RUPAR
IND 26.7%won by 6.4%INC 20.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 6.4%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 5.1% to 26.7% of the vote here (+21.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 46.9% of the vote between them, up from 37.9% — 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
1,27,921
Margin
8,230
6.43%
Candidates
7 contested · winner IND- 1SADHU SINGHIndependent · IND34,09626.7%
- 2SARMUKH SINGHIndian National Congress · INC25,86620.2%
- 3PARTAP SINGH (SC)Indian National Congress · INC25,14219.7%
- 4PIYARA SINGH (SC)Independent · IND19,45415.2%
- 5RAJA SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI9,6797.6%
- 6PIRA SINGH (SC)Communist Party of India · CPI9,1547.2%
- 7JAGIR SINGH (SC)Independent · IND4,5303.5%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–INC swing
- +21.1%
- IND share
- 5.1% → 26.7%
- INC share
- 19.7% → 20.2%
- Turnout
- — → —