Constituency
31. Kalanaur
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1957
PB-KALANAUR
INC 26.5%won by 4.2%BJS 22.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 3.7% to 4.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 13.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerBharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) finished second with 22.3% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 48.7% between them, down from 76.3% — 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
40,577
Margin
1,710
4.21%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1NAHNU RAMIndian National Congress · INC10,74326.5%
- 2NASIB SINGHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS9,03322.3%
- 3BADLU RAMIndependent · IND7,35618.1%
- 4SURAJ MALIndependent · IND3,7999.4%
- 5NARAIN SINGHIndependent · IND2,5246.2%
- 6LACHHMAN SINGHIndependent · IND2,2235.5%
- 7RAGHUBIR SINGHIndependent · IND2,1645.3%
- 8RAM PAT (SC)SCF · SCF1,5293.8%
- 9RAMU (SC)Independent · IND6441.6%
- 10RUGH NATHIndependent · IND5621.4%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- −35.8%
- INC share
- 40.0% → 26.5%
- BJS share
- 0.0% → 22.3%
- Turnout
- — → —