Constituency
15. Nilgiri
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1971
OD-NILGIRI
CPM 29.9%won by 4.6%INC 25.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.6% to 4.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 17.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 55.2% between them, down from 77.2% — 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
41,109
Margin
1,882
4.58%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1BANAMALI DASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM12,27729.9%
- 2PURNA CHANDRA PANDAIndian National Congress · INC10,39525.3%
- 3KRUT BAS PANIGRAHIUTC · UTC7,64318.6%
- 4JAGADANANDA PANJGRAHISwatantra Party · SWA5,12512.5%
- 5SITARAM SINGIndependent · IND4,0739.9%
- 6HEMENDRA NATH DASJAC · JAC9682.4%
- 7GOPAL MOHAPATRANCO · NCO6281.5%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −12.0%
- CPM share
- 46.9% → 29.9%
- INC share
- 30.3% → 25.3%
- Turnout
- — → —