Constituency
57. Fazilka
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1957
PB-FAZILKA
INC 57.4%won by 30.4%BJS 27.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 30.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 33.8% to 57.4% of the vote here (+23.6%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.4% of the vote between them, up from 71.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
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Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
33,900
Margin
10,312
30.42%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1RADHA KRISHANIndian National Congress · INC19,46957.4%
- 2PREM NATHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS9,15727.0%
- 3KARAM CHANDCommunist Party of India · CPI2,6447.8%
- 4HAZARI LALIndependent · IND1,8875.6%
- 5MAHI RAMIndependent · IND7432.2%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJS swing
- +19.8%
- INC share
- 33.8% → 57.4%
- BJS share
- 23.2% → 27.0%
- Turnout
- — → —