Constituency
21. Aska
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1957
OD-ASKA
CPI 40.5%won by 6.9%INC 33.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.4% to 6.9%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (CPI) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 74.1% of the vote between them, up from 31.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
36,458
Margin
2,511
6.89%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1HARIHARA DASSCommunist Party of India · CPI14,75540.5%
- 2KRISHNA CHANDRA TRIPATHYIndian National Congress · INC12,24433.6%
- 3PADMANABHA SINGH DEOGP · GP9,45925.9%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- −4.4%
- CPI share
- 18.6% → 40.5%
- INC share
- 7.3% → 33.6%
- Turnout
- — → —