Constituency
105. Salepur
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1961
OD-SALEPUR
PSP 45.4%won by 4.6%INC 40.8%
What changed here
DerivedPraja Socialist Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.2% to 4.6%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.2% of the vote between them, up from 48.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered4 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
23,088
Margin
1,069
4.63%
Candidates
4 contested · winner PSP- 1BEHERA BAIDHARPraja Socialist Party · PSP10,48445.4%
- 2MALLIK HAREKRUSHNAIndian National Congress · INC9,41540.8%
- 3KANDI KALANDICommunist Party of India · CPI1,9868.6%
- 4SAMAL ARJUNAGP · GP1,2035.2%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- PSP
- PSP–INC swing
- +2.5%
- PSP share
- 25.2% → 45.4%
- INC share
- 23.0% → 40.8%
- Turnout
- — → —