Constituency
55. Sambalpur
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1961
OD-SAMBALPUR
INC 50.2%won by 8.3%GP 41.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: GP (GP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 8.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 17.8% to 50.2% of the vote here (+32.4%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.1% of the vote between them, up from 49.1% — 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
23,627
Margin
1,966
8.32%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1BABU BANAMALIIndian National Congress · INC11,86850.2%
- 2SUPAKAR SRADDHAKARGP · GP9,90241.9%
- 3LATH HARISHANKARIndependent · IND1,0564.5%
- 4GANDA KAETIndependent · IND8013.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- GP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–GP swing
- +15.9%
- INC share
- 17.8% → 50.2%
- GP share
- 25.4% → 41.9%
- Turnout
- — → —