Constituency
46. Bhubaneswar
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1971
OD-BHUBANESWAR
INC 43.9%won by 12.1%UTC 31.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: JAC (JAC) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 12.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 29.1% to 43.9% of the vote here (+14.8%).
- New challengerUTC (UTC) finished second with 31.8% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.7% 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
46,212
Margin
5,577
12.07%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1HAREKRUSHNA MAHTABIndian National Congress · INC20,27443.9%
- 2BIJU PATNAIKUTC · UTC14,69731.8%
- 3RAMA KRUSHNA PATICommunist Party of India · CPI7,16315.5%
- 4SADAS BA NANDAFBL · FBL1,6123.5%
- 5PRANNATH MAHANTYSwatantra Party · SWA1,3502.9%
- 6RAMA CHANDRA KARIndependent · IND5871.3%
- 7KAILASH CHANDRA BADUIndependent · IND5291.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- JAC
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–UTC swing
- −17.0%
- INC share
- 29.1% → 43.9%
- UTC share
- 0.0% → 31.8%
- Turnout
- — → —