Constituency
97. Banaskantha
Community mirrorBombay · India Lok Sabha Election, 1957
IN-BANASKANTHA
INC 54.4%won by 8.8%IND 45.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 39.6% to 8.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Samajwadi Party (SP) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 90.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.3% to 35.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,44,894
Turnout
35.4%
Valid votes
1,22,033
Margin
10,703
8.77%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INCSince 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −47.3%
- INC share
- 65.2% → 54.4%
- IND share
- 9.1% → 45.6%
- Turnout
- 37.7% → 35.4%