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36. Jhajjar

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Punjab Assembly Election, 1957

PB-JHAJJAR

INC 24.0%won by 1.4%CPI 22.7%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.6% to 1.4%.

  • New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 22.7% — it did not contest here in 1951.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 46.7% of the vote between them, up from 35.6% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
1,45,981
Margin
2,009
1.38%

Candidates

6 contested · winner INC
  1. 1SHER SINGHIndian National Congress · INC35,10224.0%
  2. 2PHUL SINGH (SC)Communist Party of India · CPI33,09322.7%
  3. 3CHAND RAM (SC)Indian National Congress · INC31,25421.4%
  4. 4SULTAN SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI26,60118.2%
  5. 5NIRANJAN KUMARIndependent · IND16,79311.5%
  6. 6CHANDGI RAMIndependent · IND3,1382.1%

Since 1951

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INC–CPI swing
−16.7%
INC share
18.1% → 24.0%
CPI share
0.0% → 22.7%
Turnout
— → —
35. Bahadurgarh37. Ferozepur Jhirka
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