Constituency
25. Kaithal
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1957
PB-KAITHAL
INC 43.1%won by 1.3%BJS 41.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.3% to 1.3%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.9% of the vote between them, up from 69.0% — 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
39,903
Margin
513
1.29%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1OM PRABHA JAINIndian National Congress · INC17,18643.1%
- 2HARINDER SINGHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS16,67341.8%
- 3NARAYAN DATTSCF · SCF6,04415.1%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- −11.0%
- INC share
- 40.7% → 43.1%
- BJS share
- 28.4% → 41.8%
- Turnout
- — → —