Constituency
84. Nayagarh
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1961
OD-NAYAGARH
INC 27.6%won by 3.3%CPI 24.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 3.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 31.5% to 27.6% of the vote here (−3.9%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 24.3% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 51.9% between them, down from 71.9% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
21,846
Margin
715
3.27%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1SINGH BRUNDABAN CHANDRAIndian National Congress · INC6,02227.6%
- 2DORA BASUDEVCommunist Party of India · CPI5,30724.3%
- 3MOHANTY ACHUTANANDIndependent · IND4,57120.9%
- 4PATNAIK RAJAKISHOREIndependent · IND1,8158.3%
- 5RATH RAMA CHANDRAPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,1635.3%
- 6NAYAK NARAYANIndependent · IND1,0935.0%
- 7SAMANTARA GOPINATHGP · GP1,0434.8%
- 8MOHAPATRA KHETRABASIIndependent · IND8323.8%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- −28.2%
- INC share
- 31.5% → 27.6%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 24.3%
- Turnout
- — → —