Constituency
100. Bhandara
Community mirrorBombay · India Lok Sabha Election, 1957
IN-BHANDARA
INC 26.1%won by 3.3%INC 22.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.2% to 3.3%.
- 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
8,15,989
Turnout
107.0%
Valid votes
8,72,824
Margin
29,171
3.34%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1WASNIK BALKRISHNA RAMCHANDRAIndian National Congress · INC2,27,37326.1%
- 2HAJARNAVIS RAMCHANDRA MARTANDIndian National Congress · INC1,98,20222.7%
- 3MESHRAM SAKHARAM MASAJISCF · SCF1,30,92415.0%
- 4KHOBRAGADE BHAURAO DEWAJISCF · SCF1,05,75812.1%
- 5METHA ASHOK RANJITRAPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,05,61312.1%
- 6SAKHARE TULARAM CHANDRABHANPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,04,95412.0%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–INC swing
- 0.0%
- INC share
- 28.4% → 26.1%
- INC share
- 28.4% → 26.1%
- Turnout
- 105.0% → 107.0%