Constituency
60. Muktsar
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1957
PB-MUKTSAR
INC 56.5%won by 13.0%CPI 43.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 13.0%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 0.0% to 56.5% of the vote here (+56.5%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 43.5% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 51.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
47,496
Margin
6,188
13.03%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1HARCHARAN SINGHIndian National Congress · INC26,84256.5%
- 2CHANAN SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI20,65443.5%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- SAD
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- +13.0%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 56.5%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 43.5%
- Turnout
- — → —