Constituency
41. Gauhati
Community mirrorAssam · India Lok Sabha Election, 1957
IN-GAUHATI
PSP 59.8%won by 19.5%INC 40.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Praja Socialist Party (PSP), which now leads by 19.5%.
- PSP vote sharePSP went from 0.0% to 59.8% of the vote here (+59.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 83.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,20,761
Turnout
57.1%
Valid votes
2,40,121
Margin
46,873
19.52%
Candidates
2 contested · winner PSP- 1BARUA, HEMPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,43,49759.8%
- 2SARMA, DEVENDRA NATHIndian National Congress · INC96,62440.2%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- PSPflipped
- PSP–INC swing
- +67.0%
- PSP share
- 0.0% → 59.8%
- INC share
- 47.4% → 40.2%
- Turnout
- 56.2% → 57.1%