Constituency
95. Nakodar
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1957
PB-NAKODAR
INC 29.4%won by 2.5%INC 26.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 3.5% to 2.5%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 56.3% of the vote between them, up from 45.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered6 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
1,20,851
Margin
3,077
2.55%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1SANT RAM (SC)Indian National Congress · INC35,54429.4%
- 2UMRAO SINGHIndian National Congress · INC32,46726.9%
- 3BAKSHI RAM (SC)SCF · SCF17,67914.6%
- 4BEANT SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI15,32112.7%
- 5BALDEV MITTERPraja Socialist Party · PSP10,5278.7%
- 6CHARAN DASS (SC)Bharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS6,1305.1%
- 7MALKIAT SINGH (SC)Independent · IND3,1832.6%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–INC swing
- 0.0%
- INC share
- 24.3% → 29.4%
- INC share
- 24.3% → 29.4%
- Turnout
- — → —