Constituency
15. Ambala City
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1957
PB-AMBALA-CITY
INC 55.0%won by 17.0%BJS 38.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 14.9% to 17.0%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.1% of the vote between them, up from 84.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered3 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
37,309
Margin
6,329
16.96%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1ABDUL GUFAR KHANIndian National Congress · INC20,52455.0%
- 2RAGHBIR SARANBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS14,19538.0%
- 3SADHU RAM (SC)Independent · IND2,5906.9%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- +2.1%
- INC share
- 49.7% → 55.0%
- BJS share
- 34.8% → 38.0%
- Turnout
- — → —