Constituency
45. Bonai
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1957
OD-BONAI
GP 43.1%won by 15.9%INC 27.2%
What changed here
DerivedGP held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 48.1% to 15.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 24.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.3% between them, down from 87.7% — 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
18,948
Margin
3,017
15.92%
Candidates
4 contested · winner GP- 1ARJUN NAIK (ST)GP · GP8,16543.1%
- 2BASANT KUMAR DANDPAT (ST)Indian National Congress · INC5,14827.2%
- 3PRABHUSAHAY MUNDA (ST)Independent · IND3,76019.8%
- 4RUDRA KISAN (ST)Independent · IND1,8759.9%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- GP
- Winner now
- GP
- GP–INC swing
- −32.2%
- GP share
- 67.9% → 43.1%
- INC share
- 19.8% → 27.2%
- Turnout
- — → —