Constituency
20. Chatrapur
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1961
OD-CHATRAPUR
CPI 43.4%won by 9.4%INC 34.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 9.4%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.4% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered4 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
19,110
Margin
1,795
9.39%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPI- 1MAHAPATRA LAKSHMANCommunist Party of India · CPI8,28943.4%
- 2V. SITARAMAYYAIndian National Congress · INC6,49434.0%
- 3BEHERA RAGHUNATHIndependent · IND2,19111.5%
- 4MAHAPATRA GOVINDA CHANDRAGP · GP1,4247.5%
- 5SAMANTARA RADHAMOHANIndependent · IND7123.7%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +20.0%
- CPI share
- 44.7% → 43.4%
- INC share
- 55.3% → 34.0%
- Turnout
- — → —