Constituency
62. Bhanjanagar
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1967
OD-BHANJANAGAR
INC 41.8%won by 19.7%CPI 22.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 48.7% to 19.7%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1961 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 26.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 63.9% between them, down from 88.5% — the field split more ways.
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
32,227
Margin
6,357
19.73%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1D.BEHERAIndian National Congress · INC13,47341.8%
- 2B.ARUKHACommunist Party of India · CPI7,11622.1%
- 3K.PANDAIndependent · IND6,25319.4%
- 4S.MAHAPATRASwatantra Party · SWA3,44310.7%
- 5D.BEHERAJAC · JAC1,9426.0%
Since 1961
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1961 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −28.9%
- INC share
- 68.6% → 41.8%
- CPI share
- 19.9% → 22.1%
- Turnout
- — → —