Constituency
119. Kolaba
Community mirrorBombay · India Lok Sabha Election, 1957
IN-KOLABA
PWP 67.8%won by 35.5%INC 32.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to PWP (PWP), which now leads by 35.5%.
- PWP vote sharePWP went from 38.5% to 67.8% of the vote here (+29.2%).
- Safe seatPWP won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,32,039
Turnout
53.8%
Valid votes
1,78,591
Margin
63,475
35.54%
Candidates
2 contested · winner PWP- 1RAUT RAJARAM BALKRISHNAPWP · PWP1,21,03367.8%
- 2KUNTE DATTATRAY KASHINATHIndian National Congress · INC57,55832.2%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- PWPflipped
- PWP–INC swing
- +58.5%
- PWP share
- 38.5% → 67.8%
- INC share
- 61.5% → 32.2%
- Turnout
- 52.2% → 53.8%