Constituency
22. Gharaunda
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1957
PB-GHARAUNDA
INC 48.6%won by 0.6%IND 48.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 14.0% to 0.6%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.6% of the vote between them, up from 82.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 224 votes (0.64%) — among the closest results anywhere.
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
34,841
Margin
224
0.64%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1MULTAN SINGHIndian National Congress · INC16,94348.6%
- 2RULIA RAMIndependent · IND16,71948.0%
- 3PURANIndependent · IND1,1793.4%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −13.3%
- INC share
- 48.2% → 48.6%
- IND share
- 34.2% → 48.0%
- Turnout
- — → —