Constituency
71. Amritsar City East
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1957
PB-AMRITSAR-CITY-EAST
BJS 47.5%won by 11.7%INC 35.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) lost it to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), which now leads by 11.7%.
- BJS vote shareBJS went from 15.5% to 47.5% of the vote here (+32.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 83.4% of the vote between them, up from 77.6% — 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
38,416
Margin
4,479
11.66%
Candidates
4 contested · winner BJS- 1BALDEV PRAKASHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS18,25447.5%
- 2GAIN CHANDIndian National Congress · INC13,77535.9%
- 3KIRPAL SINGHPraja Socialist Party · PSP5,99815.6%
- 4MOHINDER KAURIndependent · IND3891.0%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- SAD
- Winner now
- BJSflipped
- BJS–INC swing
- +33.6%
- BJS share
- 15.5% → 47.5%
- INC share
- 37.5% → 35.9%
- Turnout
- — → —