Constituency
256. New Delhi
Community mirrorNct of Delhi · India Lok Sabha Election, 1957
IN-NEW-DELHI
INC 73.7%won by 51.8%BJS 21.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: KMPP (KMPP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 51.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 39.2% to 73.7% of the vote here (+34.4%).
- New challengerBharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) finished second with 21.9% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.5% of the vote between them, up from 85.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.1% to 53.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,92,753
Turnout
53.9%
Valid votes
1,03,914
Margin
53,814
51.79%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1SUCHETA KRIPALANIIndian National Congress · INC76,54073.7%
- 2BAL RAJBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS22,72621.9%
- 3GURCHARAN KAURIndependent · IND3,7713.6%
- 4C. P. AGGARWALIndependent · IND8770.8%
- 5MANMOHINI SAHGALIndependent · IND00.0%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- KMPP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJS swing
- +12.6%
- INC share
- 39.2% → 73.7%
- BJS share
- 0.0% → 21.9%
- Turnout
- 56.0% → 53.9%