Constituency
20. Butana
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1957
PB-BUTANA
INC 62.7%won by 40.9%IND 21.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.5% to 40.9%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.5% of the vote between them, up from 45.3% — 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
33,822
Margin
13,825
40.88%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1CHAMBEL SINGHIndian National Congress · INC21,20162.7%
- 2SURAT SINGHIndependent · IND7,37621.8%
- 3AMAR NATHSCF · SCF5,24515.5%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +23.9%
- INC share
- 23.4% → 62.7%
- IND share
- 6.4% → 21.8%
- Turnout
- — → —