Constituency
38. Hasanpur
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1957
PB-HASANPUR
INC 57.1%won by 32.4%IND 24.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.3% to 32.4%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from ZP (ZP) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 81.8% of the vote between them, up from 63.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
45,408
Margin
14,724
32.43%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1SUMER SINGHIndian National Congress · INC25,93557.1%
- 2JIWAN LALIndependent · IND11,21124.7%
- 3PAT RAMCommunist Party of India · CPI5,31911.7%
- 4DEVINDRA PAL SINGHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS2,9436.5%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +10.5%
- INC share
- 36.7% → 57.1%
- IND share
- 14.8% → 24.7%
- Turnout
- — → —