Constituency
81. Gurdaspur
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1957
PB-GURDASPUR
INC 20.6%won by 0.6%INC 20.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 3.5% to 0.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 40.6% between them, down from 50.4% — 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
1,48,519
Margin
947
0.64%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1PRABODH CHANDERIndian National Congress · INC30,61720.6%
- 2SUNDER SINGH (SC)Indian National Congress · INC29,67020.0%
- 3THORA (SC)Communist Party of India · CPI29,09119.6%
- 4RAM SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI26,24017.7%
- 5SAT PAL (SC)Bharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS14,5709.8%
- 6KEWAL KRISHANBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS13,9379.4%
- 7SEWA SINGHIndependent · IND4,3943.0%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–INC swing
- 0.0%
- INC share
- 26.9% → 20.6%
- INC share
- 26.9% → 20.6%
- Turnout
- — → —