Constituency
79. Dera Baba Nanak
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1957
PB-DERA-BABA-NANAK
INC 43.0%won by 8.2%IND 34.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 8.7% to 8.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.7% between them, down from 85.4% — the field split more ways.
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
35,676
Margin
2,933
8.22%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1WARYAM SINGHIndian National Congress · INC15,32543.0%
- 2MAKHAN SINGHIndependent · IND12,39234.7%
- 3RALLA RAMBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS3,1368.8%
- 4TARA SINGH (SC)Independent · IND2,8898.1%
- 5PARMINDER SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI1,9345.4%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −32.3%
- INC share
- 47.1% → 43.0%
- IND share
- 6.6% → 34.7%
- Turnout
- — → —