Constituency
46. Bolangir
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1961
OD-BOLANGIR
GP 77.3%won by 54.6%INC 22.7%
What changed here
DerivedGP held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.6% to 54.6%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from GP (GP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 63.3% — 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
21,168
Margin
11,554
54.58%
Candidates
2 contested · winner GP- 1SINGH CHANDRA SEKHARGP · GP16,36177.3%
- 2KUANAR GOUTAMIndian National Congress · INC4,80722.7%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- GP
- Winner now
- GP
- GP–INC swing
- +33.5%
- GP share
- 32.5% → 77.3%
- INC share
- 11.4% → 22.7%
- Turnout
- — → —