Constituency
97. Phillaur
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1957
PB-PHILLAUR
INC 39.1%won by 12.3%SCF 26.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.1% to 12.3%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 65.9% of the vote between them, up from 54.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered4 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
44,452
Margin
5,454
12.27%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1UDHAM SINGHIndian National Congress · INC17,37939.1%
- 2DUNI CHAND (SC)SCF · SCF11,92526.8%
- 3GURBAX SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI10,47423.6%
- 4HARPHOOL CHANDBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS4,67410.5%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SCF swing
- +8.1%
- INC share
- 29.1% → 39.1%
- SCF share
- 24.9% → 26.8%
- Turnout
- — → —