Constituency
52. Puri
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1971
OD-PURI
INC 41.7%won by 18.4%UTC 23.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 18.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 15.6% to 41.7% of the vote here (+26.0%).
- New challengerUTC (UTC) finished second with 23.3% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.0% between them, down from 79.1% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
37,215
Margin
6,833
18.36%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1BRAJAMOHAN MOHANTYIndian National Congress · INC15,51041.7%
- 2RAMAHARI RATHUTC · UTC8,67723.3%
- 3HARIHAR BAHINIPATIPraja Socialist Party · PSP5,06313.6%
- 4MAHANT SRINIVAS R. DASSwatantra Party · SWA2,8257.6%
- 5BIMALKRISHNA MISRAJAC · JAC2,3126.2%
- 6BAMADEB MISRAIndependent · IND1,9395.2%
- 7SATYA NARAYAN SINGHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS8892.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–UTC swing
- +2.7%
- INC share
- 15.6% → 41.7%
- UTC share
- 0.0% → 23.3%
- Turnout
- — → —