Constituency
87. Hoshiarpur
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1957
PB-HOSHIARPUR
IND 25.4%won by 5.8%SCF 19.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 5.8%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 9.8% to 25.4% of the vote here (+15.5%).
- New challengerSCF (SCF) finished second with 19.6% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 45.0% of the vote between them, up from 35.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
1,63,106
Margin
9,438
5.79%
Candidates
7 contested · winner IND- 1BALBIR SINGHIndependent · IND41,39925.4%
- 2KARAM CHAND (SC)SCF · SCF31,96119.6%
- 3SUDARSHAN DASS (SC)Indian National Congress · INC31,50219.3%
- 4AMAR SINGHIndian National Congress · INC26,80616.4%
- 5HARBHAJAN SINGHIndependent · IND14,4618.9%
- 6KARTAR SINGH (SC)Independent · IND13,3468.2%
- 7MINH MAL (SC)Independent · IND3,6312.2%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–SCF swing
- −4.1%
- IND share
- 9.8% → 25.4%
- SCF share
- 0.0% → 19.6%
- Turnout
- — → —