Constituency
63. Puri
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1957
OD-PURI
PSP 52.8%won by 11.5%INC 41.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samajwadi Party (SP) lost it to Praja Socialist Party (PSP), which now leads by 11.5%.
- PSP vote sharePSP went from 0.0% to 52.8% of the vote here (+52.8%).
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 41.3% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 94.2% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
23,000
Margin
2,641
11.48%
Candidates
3 contested · winner PSP- 1HARIHAR BAHINIPATIPraja Socialist Party · PSP12,14952.8%
- 2KUNTALA DEBIIndian National Congress · INC9,50841.3%
- 3SARASWATI DEBIIndependent · IND1,3435.8%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- SP
- Winner now
- PSPflipped
- PSP–INC swing
- +11.5%
- PSP share
- 0.0% → 52.8%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 41.3%
- Turnout
- — → —