Constituency
280. Jalandhar
Community mirrorPunjab · India Lok Sabha Election, 1957
IN-JALANDHAR
INC 25.3%won by 1.8%INC 23.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.3% to 1.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 24.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 48.8% between them, down from 83.1% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 62.9% to 118.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
8,53,060
Turnout
118.4%
Valid votes
10,09,778
Margin
18,452
1.83%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1SWARAN SINGHIndian National Congress · INC2,55,54525.3%
- 2SADHU RAMIndian National Congress · INC2,37,09323.5%
- 3CHANAN RAMSCF · SCF1,54,58315.3%
- 4DARSHAN SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI1,49,45714.8%
- 5SADHU RAM S/O RIKHI RAMBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS86,9528.6%
- 6SANT RAMBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS86,6068.6%
- 7MELA SINGHIndependent · IND39,5423.9%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–INC swing
- 0.0%
- INC share
- 50.2% → 25.3%
- INC share
- 50.2% → 25.3%
- Turnout
- 55.5% → 118.4%