Constituency
47. Balipatna
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1971
OD-BALIPATNA
INC 61.2%won by 41.3%UTC 19.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: JAC (JAC) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 41.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 22.8% to 61.2% of the vote here (+38.3%).
- New challengerUTC (UTC) finished second with 19.9% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 81.1% of the vote between them, up from 63.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
30,696
Margin
12,665
41.26%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1BASANTA BEHERAIndian National Congress · INC18,78361.2%
- 2GOPINATH BHOIUTC · UTC6,11819.9%
- 3SATYABADI BHOISwatantra Party · SWA1,5225.0%
- 4PRAHALAD BHOINCO · NCO1,4954.9%
- 5DHARANI DHAR BEHERAIndependent · IND1,4514.7%
- 6HARI HARA BHOIIndependent · IND9993.3%
- 7AKURA BHOIJAC · JAC3281.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- JAC
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–UTC swing
- +18.4%
- INC share
- 22.8% → 61.2%
- UTC share
- 0.0% → 19.9%
- Turnout
- — → —