Constituency
9. Pottangi
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1961
OD-POTTANGI
INC 50.5%won by 0.9%GP 49.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 2.6% to 0.9%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 91.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 77 votes (0.92%) — among the closest results anywhere.
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
8,331
Margin
77
0.92%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1PANGI MUSURI SANTAIndian National Congress · INC4,20450.5%
- 2BOINA, ALLAYAGP · GP4,12749.5%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–GP swing
- −1.7%
- INC share
- 46.8% → 50.5%
- GP share
- 44.2% → 49.5%
- Turnout
- — → —