Constituency
16. Thanesar
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1957
PB-THANESAR
INC 23.8%won by 0.0%INC 23.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.1% to 0.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 21.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 47.6% between them, down from 70.6% — 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
1,42,107
Margin
21
0.01%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1RAN SINGH (SC)Indian National Congress · INC33,85023.8%
- 2BANARSI DASIndian National Congress · INC33,82923.8%
- 3KRISHAN GOPALBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS19,08113.4%
- 4BALBIR SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI17,25612.1%
- 5SUNDAR LAL (SC)Bharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS16,28211.5%
- 6RAM DIA (SC)Communist Party of India · CPI13,7469.7%
- 7KUNDANIndependent · IND8,0635.7%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–INC swing
- 0.0%
- INC share
- 44.8% → 23.8%
- INC share
- 44.8% → 23.8%
- Turnout
- — → —