Constituency
11. Gunupur
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1961
OD-GUNUPUR
INC 52.8%won by 33.9%GP 18.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.2% to 33.9%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to GP (GP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 71.7% of the vote between them, up from 52.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
17,658
Margin
5,985
33.89%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1PATRO NARASINGOIndian National Congress · INC9,32352.8%
- 2SOHU NABINCHANDROGP · GP3,33818.9%
- 3PATNAIK SOMONATHCommunist Party of India · CPI2,88816.4%
- 4GAMANGO SANYAIndependent · IND2,10911.9%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–GP swing
- +22.9%
- INC share
- 29.1% → 52.8%
- GP share
- 18.1% → 18.9%
- Turnout
- — → —