Constituency
61. Jharsuguda
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1961
OD-JHARSUGUDA
INC 47.5%won by 11.0%GP 36.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.8% to 11.0%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.0% of the vote between them, up from 30.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered4 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
18,136
Margin
1,990
10.97%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1BARIHA BINOD BIHARIIndian National Congress · INC8,61147.5%
- 2NAIK MONOHARGP · GP6,62136.5%
- 3TUDU HARAMITRAIndependent · IND1,5788.7%
- 4KISHAN DILESWARJanahitha Paksha · JP1,3267.3%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–GP swing
- +9.1%
- INC share
- 16.0% → 47.5%
- GP share
- 14.2% → 36.5%
- Turnout
- — → —