Constituency
17. Simulia
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1971
OD-SIMULIA
CPI 22.4%won by 5.6%UTC 16.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 5.6%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 0.0% to 22.4% of the vote here (+22.4%).
- New challengerUTC (UTC) finished second with 16.8% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 39.3% between them, down from 91.7% — 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
40,164
Margin
2,237
5.57%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPI- 1CHINTAMANI JENACommunist Party of India · CPI9,00422.4%
- 2PURUSHOTTAM SETHIUTC · UTC6,76716.8%
- 3BABAJI CH. DASIndependent · IND5,89114.7%
- 4KAPILA CH. SETHISwatantra Party · SWA5,77914.4%
- 5PANCHNAN MANDALIndependent · IND5,26113.1%
- 6UCHHAB CH. JENAPraja Socialist Party · PSP3,7629.4%
- 7BHAGIRATHI DASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,9694.9%
- 8KANHU CH. JENANCO · NCO1,7314.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–UTC swing
- +5.6%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 22.4%
- UTC share
- 0.0% → 16.8%
- Turnout
- — → —