Constituency
52. Hissar City
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1957
PB-HISSAR-CITY
INC 45.4%won by 21.9%IND 23.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.8% to 21.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.8% between them, down from 77.3% — 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
36,621
Margin
8,022
21.91%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1BALWANT RAIIndian National Congress · INC16,61045.4%
- 2MISRI LALIndependent · IND8,58823.5%
- 3BISHAN SARUPBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS4,98813.6%
- 4DITTU RAMIndependent · IND4,02611.0%
- 5SHARWAN KUMARIndependent · IND2,4096.6%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −24.1%
- INC share
- 51.6% → 45.4%
- IND share
- 5.6% → 23.5%
- Turnout
- — → —