Constituency
56. Abohar
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1957
PB-ABOHAR
BJS 40.7%won by 7.0%INC 33.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), which now leads by 7.0%.
- BJS vote shareBJS went from 28.6% to 40.7% of the vote here (+12.2%).
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
37,638
Margin
2,646
7.03%
Candidates
3 contested · winner BJS- 1SAHI RAMBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS15,33640.7%
- 2CHANDI RAMIndian National Congress · INC12,69033.7%
- 3KHIALI (SC)SCF · SCF9,61225.5%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJSflipped
- BJS–INC swing
- +20.8%
- BJS share
- 28.6% → 40.7%
- INC share
- 42.3% → 33.7%
- Turnout
- — → —