Constituency
72. Amritsar City West
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1957
PB-AMRITSAR-CITY-WEST
BJS 64.5%won by 29.0%INC 35.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), which now leads by 29.0%.
- BJS vote shareBJS went from 17.8% to 64.5% of the vote here (+46.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 72.2% — 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
37,819
Margin
10,949
28.95%
Candidates
2 contested · winner BJS- 1BALRAM DASBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS24,38464.5%
- 2RADHA KISHANIndian National Congress · INC13,43535.5%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJSflipped
- BJS–INC swing
- +65.6%
- BJS share
- 17.8% → 64.5%
- INC share
- 54.4% → 35.5%
- Turnout
- — → —