Constituency
89. Mukerian
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1957
PB-MUKERIAN
INC 25.8%won by 1.7%INC 24.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.5% to 1.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 17.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 49.9% between them, down from 75.7% — 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
1,65,061
Margin
2,788
1.69%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1RALLA RAMIndian National Congress · INC42,53825.8%
- 2GURAN DASS (SC)Indian National Congress · INC39,75024.1%
- 3LAL JI (SC)SCF · SCF27,94716.9%
- 4CHANAN SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI25,64015.5%
- 5KEWAL KRISHANBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS18,67011.3%
- 6SHANKAR SINGH (SC)Independent · IND10,5166.4%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–INC swing
- 0.0%
- INC share
- 43.6% → 25.8%
- INC share
- 43.6% → 25.8%
- Turnout
- — → —