Constituency
276. Gurdaspur
Community mirrorPunjab · India Lok Sabha Election, 1957
IN-GURDASPUR
INC 40.3%won by 19.6%IND 20.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.9% to 19.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.0% between them, down from 82.5% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 11.9% to 63.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,94,742
Turnout
63.5%
Valid votes
2,50,561
Margin
49,014
19.56%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1DEWAN CHANDIndian National Congress · INC1,00,91140.3%
- 2TEJA SINGHIndependent · IND51,89720.7%
- 3OMA SHANKARBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS48,12719.2%
- 4DALIP SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI31,54612.6%
- 5BAWA RAMIndependent · IND18,0807.2%
- 6KARAM CHANDSCF · SCF00.0%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +7.7%
- INC share
- 47.2% → 40.3%
- IND share
- 35.3% → 20.7%
- Turnout
- 51.6% → 63.5%