Constituency
55. Sirsa
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1957
PB-SIRSA
IND 19.9%won by 1.4%INC 18.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 1.4%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 42.7% to 19.9% of the vote here (−22.8%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 38.5% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
1,36,827
Margin
1,941
1.42%
Candidates
16 contested · winner IND- 1RAM DAYALIndependent · IND27,27619.9%
- 2KESARA RAM (SC)Indian National Congress · INC25,33518.5%
- 3SANT LALIndian National Congress · INC23,35317.1%
- 4PREM SINGH (SC)Independent · IND13,1239.6%
- 5GURDEV SINGHIndependent · IND7,3375.4%
- 6LAL CHANDIndependent · IND6,7724.9%
- 7PURKHA (SC)Communist Party of India · CPI6,0384.4%
- 8PERMA NANDPraja Socialist Party · PSP4,7003.4%
- 9PANNA (SC)Independent · IND4,4173.2%
- 10SODAGAR SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI4,2373.1%
- 11NIKKU (SC)Praja Socialist Party · PSP3,8332.8%
- 12SHERA RAM (SC)Independent · IND3,4982.6%
- 13BIRBAL (SC)Independent · IND2,0151.5%
- 14JANKI DEVIIndependent · IND1,6851.2%
- 15SHAM LALIndependent · IND1,6271.2%
- 16CHET RAM (SC)Independent · IND1,5811.2%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–INC swing
- +15.9%
- IND share
- 42.7% → 19.9%
- INC share
- 57.3% → 18.5%
- Turnout
- — → —