Constituency
283. Kangra
Community mirrorPunjab · India Lok Sabha Election, 1957
IN-KANGRA
INC 25.7%won by 0.8%INC 24.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 46.8% to 0.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 38.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 50.7% between them, down from 82.3% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 13.1% to 33.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
8,46,795
Turnout
33.9%
Valid votes
2,86,822
Margin
2,252
0.79%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1DALJIT SINGHIndian National Congress · INC73,78325.7%
- 2HEM RAJIndian National Congress · INC71,53124.9%
- 3KULTAR CHANDIndependent · IND61,24521.4%
- 4SHANKAR SINGHSCF · SCF53,73018.7%
- 5RAM NATH KALIAIndependent · IND15,7395.5%
- 6BHAGWAN DASSIndependent · IND10,7943.8%
- 7RUP SINGHIndependent · IND00.0%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–INC swing
- 0.0%
- INC share
- 64.6% → 25.7%
- INC share
- 64.6% → 25.7%
- Turnout
- 46.9% → 33.9%