Constituency
15. Digapahandi
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1961
OD-DIGAPAHANDI
INC 58.4%won by 24.9%CPI 33.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.6% to 24.9%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Communist Party of India (CPI).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.9% of the vote between them, up from 60.3% — 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
26,091
Margin
6,488
24.87%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1MAHAPATRA RAGHUNATHIndian National Congress · INC15,23758.4%
- 2PRODHAN GOVINDCommunist Party of India · CPI8,74933.5%
- 3MISRA LAKSHMINARAYANIndependent · IND1,4175.4%
- 4MEKAPS CHANDRASEKHARGP · GP6882.6%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- +3.4%
- INC share
- 33.5% → 58.4%
- CPI share
- 12.0% → 33.5%
- Turnout
- — → —