Constituency
57. Katarbaga
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1961
OD-KATARBAGA
GP 39.5%won by 3.2%INC 36.4%
What changed here
DerivedGP held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.0% to 3.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Multi-cornered5 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
16,155
Margin
511
3.16%
Candidates
5 contested · winner GP- 1MISRA BISHNU PRASADGP · GP6,38639.5%
- 2PANDA PURUSHOTAMIndian National Congress · INC5,87536.4%
- 3PANDA GOURA CHANDRAIndependent · IND1,5199.4%
- 4DAVID MUNJNIIndependent · IND1,2297.6%
- 5DUBE KEDARNATHIndependent · IND1,1467.1%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- GP
- Winner now
- GP
- GP–INC swing
- −7.8%
- GP share
- 42.9% → 39.5%
- INC share
- 31.9% → 36.4%
- Turnout
- — → —