Constituency
23. Kodala West
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1961
OD-KODALA-WEST
INC 50.2%won by 12.1%PSP 38.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.1% to 12.1%.
- 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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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
30,695
Margin
3,721
12.12%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1DAS BISWANATHIndian National Congress · INC15,40950.2%
- 2MAHARANA BANAMALIPraja Socialist Party · PSP11,68838.1%
- 3EMARPU DASARATHIGP · GP3,59811.7%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–PSP swing
- −5.0%
- INC share
- 51.8% → 50.2%
- PSP share
- 34.7% → 38.1%
- Turnout
- — → —