Constituency
24. Kodala East
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1961
OD-KODALA-EAST
INC 44.9%won by 11.1%PSP 33.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 32.7% to 11.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 16.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.7% between them, down from 90.3% — the field split more ways.
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
20,576
Margin
2,292
11.14%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1PANIGARHI LINGARAJIndian National Congress · INC9,24744.9%
- 2PATNAIK DIBAKARPraja Socialist Party · PSP6,95533.8%
- 3JAGADEB GOVINDCHANDRA HARICHANDANGP · GP3,89018.9%
- 4BISOYI NATABARIndependent · IND4842.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–PSP swing
- −21.6%
- INC share
- 61.5% → 44.9%
- PSP share
- 28.8% → 33.8%
- Turnout
- — → —