Constituency
34. Sonepur
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1957
OD-SONEPUR
GP 33.2%won by 5.3%GP 27.8%
What changed here
DerivedGP held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 56.2% to 5.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 36.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.0% between them, down from 82.3% — the field split more ways.
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
64,485
Margin
3,440
5.33%
Candidates
7 contested · winner GP- 1ANANTARAM NANDAGP · GP21,38133.2%
- 2DAULATA GANDA (SC)GP · GP17,94127.8%
- 3KRUPASINDHU NAIK (SC)Indian National Congress · INC7,55011.7%
- 4CHINTAMANI RATHAIndian National Congress · INC5,8729.1%
- 5MAHAJAN JAGADALA (SC)Independent · IND4,4646.9%
- 6LAXMAN SATPATHYIndependent · IND4,2636.6%
- 7NILACHALA BIHARI PANDAIndependent · IND3,0144.7%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- GP
- Winner now
- GP
- GP–GP swing
- 0.0%
- GP share
- 69.2% → 33.2%
- GP share
- 69.2% → 33.2%
- Turnout
- — → —