Constituency
66. Bonai
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1961
OD-BONAI
GP 71.8%won by 56.3%INC 15.6%
What changed here
DerivedGP held the seat; the winning margin widened from 15.9% to 56.3%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.4% of the vote between them, up from 70.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatGP won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 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
17,838
Margin
10,036
56.26%
Candidates
3 contested · winner GP- 1MOHAPATRA HEMENDRA PRASADGP · GP12,81671.8%
- 2DANDPAT HAMANDA KUMAR SINGHIndian National Congress · INC2,78015.6%
- 3MUNDA LUCASJanahitha Paksha · JP2,24212.6%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- GP
- Winner now
- GP
- GP–INC swing
- +40.3%
- GP share
- 43.1% → 71.8%
- INC share
- 27.2% → 15.6%
- Turnout
- — → —