Constituency
126. Nilgiri
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1961
OD-NILGIRI
GP 39.5%won by 7.8%INC 31.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to GP (GP), which now leads by 7.8%.
- GP vote shareGP went from 20.7% to 39.5% of the vote here (+18.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 71.1% of the vote between them, up from 65.1% — 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
33,073
Margin
2,595
7.85%
Candidates
3 contested · winner GP- 1MARDARAJ HARICHANDAN RAJA RAJENDRACHANDRAGP · GP13,04939.5%
- 2RAJA BALARAMIndian National Congress · INC10,45431.6%
- 3DAS BANAMALICommunist Party of India · CPI9,57028.9%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- GPflipped
- GP–INC swing
- +21.2%
- GP share
- 20.7% → 39.5%
- INC share
- 34.0% → 31.6%
- Turnout
- — → —