Constituency
101. Cuttack Sadar
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1961
OD-CUTTACK-SADAR
INC 63.5%won by 42.2%CPI 21.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.9% to 42.2%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Communist Party of India (CPI).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.8% of the vote between them, up from 61.5% — 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
22,600
Margin
9,544
42.23%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1MALLICK LAXMANIndian National Congress · INC14,35563.5%
- 2SETHI PRAHLADCommunist Party of India · CPI4,81121.3%
- 3SETHI KRUSHNA CHANDRAGP · GP3,43415.2%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- +30.5%
- INC share
- 32.7% → 63.5%
- CPI share
- 21.0% → 21.3%
- Turnout
- — → —