Constituency
13. Jagadhri
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1957
PB-JAGADHRI
INC 31.7%won by 0.7%INC 31.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 29.6% to 0.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 938 votes (0.66%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
1,42,409
Margin
938
0.66%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1RAM PARKASH (SC)Indian National Congress · INC45,13431.7%
- 2AMAR NATH VIDHALANKARIndian National Congress · INC44,19631.0%
- 3JAI GOPALPraja Socialist Party · PSP28,20719.8%
- 4JUGAL KISHORE (SC)Bharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS24,87217.5%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–INC swing
- 0.0%
- INC share
- 47.1% → 31.7%
- INC share
- 47.1% → 31.7%
- Turnout
- — → —