Constituency
7. Padwa
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1961
OD-PADWA
INC 43.3%won by 7.8%GP 35.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: GP (GP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 7.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 30.8% to 43.3% of the vote here (+12.5%).
- Multi-cornered3 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
7,925
Margin
615
7.76%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1MAHAPATRA GANESWARIndian National Congress · INC3,43443.3%
- 2GOUDO LAXMANGP · GP2,81935.6%
- 3NAYAK SADASIBOIndependent · IND1,67221.1%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- GP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–GP swing
- +23.8%
- INC share
- 30.8% → 43.3%
- GP share
- 46.9% → 35.6%
- Turnout
- — → —