Constituency
230. Salempur West
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1957
UP-SALEMPUR-WEST
IND 48.2%won by 16.4%INC 31.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 16.4%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 4.4% to 48.2% of the vote here (+43.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 80.1% of the vote between them, up from 64.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
34,431
Margin
5,635
16.37%
Candidates
5 contested · winner IND- 1UGRASENIndependent · IND16,60148.2%
- 2DEV NANDANIndian National Congress · INC10,96631.8%
- 3RAM KISHUNCommunist Party of India · CPI3,85911.2%
- 4CHANDRIKA PRASADPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,8865.5%
- 5MISRI LALBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,1193.2%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–INC swing
- +47.4%
- IND share
- 4.4% → 48.2%
- INC share
- 35.5% → 31.8%
- Turnout
- — → —