Constituency
41. Gurgaon
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1957
PB-GURGAON
INC 36.1%won by 13.7%BJS 22.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 32.3% to 13.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 26.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerBharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) finished second with 22.4% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 58.5% between them, down from 93.6% — 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
37,043
Margin
5,087
13.73%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1GAJRAJ SINGHIndian National Congress · INC13,38536.1%
- 2RAM CHANDBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS8,29822.4%
- 3ROOP CHANDIndependent · IND7,64620.6%
- 4KAPTAN SINGHIndependent · IND5,59815.1%
- 5RAM SINGHIndependent · IND2,1165.7%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- −49.2%
- INC share
- 62.9% → 36.1%
- BJS share
- 0.0% → 22.4%
- Turnout
- — → —