Constituency
91. Basta
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1957
OD-BASTA
INC 48.6%won by 16.5%PSP 32.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 57.4% to 16.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 30.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerPraja Socialist Party (PSP) finished second with 32.2% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.8% 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
22,430
Margin
3,698
16.49%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1AKSHYA NARAYAN PRAHARAJIndian National Congress · INC10,91048.6%
- 2MAHESWAR BAUGPraja Socialist Party · PSP7,21232.2%
- 3PRANAKRUSHNA DASGP · GP4,30819.2%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–PSP swing
- −62.2%
- INC share
- 78.7% → 48.6%
- PSP share
- 0.0% → 32.2%
- Turnout
- — → —