Constituency
44. Patnagarh
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1961
OD-PATNAGARH
GP 74.2%won by 56.4%INC 17.8%
What changed here
DerivedGP held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.2% to 56.4%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from GP (GP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.0% of the vote between them, up from 71.7% — 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
18,071
Margin
10,198
56.43%
Candidates
3 contested · winner GP- 1BHOI RAMESH CHANDRAGP · GP13,41474.2%
- 2GODAVIA JAGANNATHIndian National Congress · INC3,21617.8%
- 3BARIHA SOBHAKARIndependent · IND1,4418.0%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- GP
- Winner now
- GP
- GP–INC swing
- +34.4%
- GP share
- 37.5% → 74.2%
- INC share
- 15.4% → 17.8%
- Turnout
- — → —