Constituency
12. Jaleswar
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1971
OD-JALESWAR
PSP 38.4%won by 2.2%INC 36.2%
What changed here
DerivedPraja Socialist Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 34.0% to 2.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 28.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.5% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
45,210
Margin
1,011
2.24%
Candidates
6 contested · winner PSP- 1PRASANT KUMAR PALPraja Socialist Party · PSP17,35638.4%
- 2KUMAR CHANDRA CHAKRABARTYIndian National Congress · INC16,34536.2%
- 3KHITISH CH. DASUTC · UTC3,7998.4%
- 4HIMANSU SEKHAR NANDYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,6018.0%
- 5CHAITANYA SAHOOSwatantra Party · SWA3,2657.2%
- 6RAMSANKAR DAS MOHAPATRAJAC · JAC8441.9%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- PSP
- PSP–INC swing
- −31.8%
- PSP share
- 67.0% → 38.4%
- INC share
- 33.0% → 36.2%
- Turnout
- — → —