Constituency
29. Balliguda
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1961
OD-BALLIGUDA
GP 48.4%won by 7.6%INC 40.8%
What changed here
DerivedGP held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 18.9% to 7.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 89.2% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
7,349
Margin
558
7.59%
Candidates
4 contested · winner GP- 1PODRA DUBARAGP · GP3,55748.4%
- 2PODRA JADABOIndian National Congress · INC2,99940.8%
- 3BEHERA SRICHANDRAIndependent · IND6929.4%
- 4MALIK MURUMUTHAIndependent · IND1011.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- GP
- Winner now
- GP
- GP–INC swing
- −11.3%
- GP share
- 59.4% → 48.4%
- INC share
- 40.6% → 40.8%
- Turnout
- — → —