Constituency
287. Rohtak
Community mirrorPunjab · India Lok Sabha Election, 1957
IN-ROHTAK
INC 38.3%won by 9.7%IND 28.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 10.4% to 9.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from ZP (ZP) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.8% between them, down from 75.0% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,94,077
Turnout
69.5%
Valid votes
2,73,698
Margin
26,615
9.72%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1RANBIR SINGHIndian National Congress · INC1,04,69038.3%
- 2DHAJA RAMIndependent · IND78,07528.5%
- 3RAM CHANDBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS46,14416.9%
- 4HARI RAMSCF · SCF29,20310.7%
- 5PIARE LALIndependent · IND15,5865.7%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −15.9%
- INC share
- 42.7% → 38.3%
- IND share
- 17.1% → 28.5%
- Turnout
- 69.6% → 69.5%