Constituency
21. Karnal
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1957
PB-KARNAL
INC 53.1%won by 12.0%BJS 41.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 22.8% to 12.0%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.2% of the vote between them, up from 68.6% — 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
34,105
Margin
4,105
12.04%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1RAM PIARAIndian National Congress · INC18,11553.1%
- 2RATI RAMBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS14,01041.1%
- 3DAYA SINGHPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,9805.8%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- −10.7%
- INC share
- 45.7% → 53.1%
- BJS share
- 22.9% → 41.1%
- Turnout
- — → —