Constituency
113. Gohilwad
Community mirrorBombay · India Lok Sabha Election, 1957
IN-GOHILWAD
INC 56.7%won by 13.5%PSP 43.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 46.3% to 13.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerPraja Socialist Party (PSP) finished second with 43.3% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 82.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,55,030
Turnout
41.0%
Valid votes
1,45,540
Margin
19,624
13.48%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INCSince 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–PSP swing
- −51.1%
- INC share
- 64.6% → 56.7%
- PSP share
- 0.0% → 43.3%
- Turnout
- 40.0% → 41.0%