Constituency
31. Kendrapara
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1971
OD-KENDRAPARA
PSP 34.1%won by 2.1%INC 32.0%
What changed here
DerivedPraja Socialist Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 33.9% to 2.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 30.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.1% between them, down from 95.4% — 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
50,985
Margin
1,070
2.10%
Candidates
6 contested · winner PSP- 1BHAGABAT PRASAD MOHANTYPraja Socialist Party · PSP17,37434.1%
- 2PURSOTTAM NAYAKIndian National Congress · INC16,30432.0%
- 3BEDPRAKASH AGRAWALLAUTC · UTC15,48330.4%
- 4DADHI BABAN NAYAKIndependent · IND1,1852.3%
- 5RAGHUNATH MOHANTYNCO · NCO4250.8%
- 6JAGADANANDA PANDAJAC · JAC2140.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- PSP
- PSP–INC swing
- −31.8%
- PSP share
- 64.7% → 34.1%
- INC share
- 30.7% → 32.0%
- Turnout
- — → —