Constituency
59. Guru Har Sahai
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1957
PB-GURU-HAR-SAHAI
INC 35.2%won by 8.0%IND 27.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 8.0%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 62.4% between them, down from 74.1% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered4 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
40,204
Margin
3,207
7.98%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1BAKHTAWAR SINGHIndian National Congress · INC14,14535.2%
- 2DAULAT RAIIndependent · IND10,93827.2%
- 3KISHORE CHANDBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS6,62216.5%
- 4WADHAWA SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI6,58216.4%
- 5BUDHPARKASH SINGHIndependent · IND1,2823.2%
- 6BISHAN SINGHIndependent · IND6351.6%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- +10.1%
- INC share
- 36.0% → 35.2%
- IND share
- 38.1% → 27.2%
- Turnout
- — → —