Constituency
89. Nilgiri
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1957
OD-NILGIRI
INC 34.0%won by 3.0%CPI 31.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 4.6% to 3.0%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Communist Party of India (CPI).
- Multi-cornered5 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
28,380
Margin
852
3.00%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1NILAMBAR DASIndian National Congress · INC9,66334.0%
- 2BANAMALI DASCommunist Party of India · CPI8,81131.0%
- 3MADAN MOHAN DASGP · GP5,86320.7%
- 4JAIKRUSHNA BEHERAIndependent · IND1,4955.3%
- 5HADIBANDHU RAJIndependent · IND1,4625.2%
- 6RADHASHYAM DASIndependent · IND1,0863.8%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −22.7%
- INC share
- 33.5% → 34.0%
- CPI share
- 7.8% → 31.0%
- Turnout
- — → —