Constituency
99. Cuttack City
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1961
OD-CUTTACK-CITY
INC 59.9%won by 22.1%IND 37.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 47.0% to 22.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Praja Socialist Party (PSP) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.8% of the vote between them, up from 84.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
25,759
Margin
5,696
22.11%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1MITRA BIRENIndian National Congress · INC15,44259.9%
- 2SAHA SURAJMALIndependent · IND9,74637.8%
- 3MAHANTY SHIHA NARAYANGP · GP5712.2%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −28.7%
- INC share
- 65.9% → 59.9%
- IND share
- 15.1% → 37.8%
- Turnout
- — → —