Constituency
74. Talcher
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1961
OD-TALCHER
INC 60.7%won by 32.1%GP 28.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 17.9% to 32.1%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 89.3% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress 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
29,229
Margin
9,385
32.11%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1PRADHAN PABITRA MOHANIndian National Congress · INC17,74560.7%
- 2DEB ROUTRAY ALHAD CHANDRAGP · GP8,36028.6%
- 3MISRA SRINIVASCommunist Party of India · CPI3,12410.7%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–GP swing
- +14.2%
- INC share
- 59.0% → 60.7%
- GP share
- 41.0% → 28.6%
- Turnout
- — → —