Constituency
54. Banpur
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1971
OD-BANPUR
SWA 41.6%won by 4.9%INC 36.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Swatantra Party (SWA), which now leads by 4.9%.
- SWA vote shareSWA went from 6.8% to 41.6% of the vote here (+34.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 78.2% of the vote between them, up from 65.3% — 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
42,618
Margin
2,102
4.93%
Candidates
5 contested · winner SWA- 1RAMACHANDRA PRAHARAJASwatantra Party · SWA17,72341.6%
- 2RAGHUNATH ARAYIndian National Congress · INC15,62136.7%
- 3SIDHA MANSINGHUTC · UTC4,46910.5%
- 4BHUBANESWAR MAHARANACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,0839.6%
- 5N. S. CHARAN SAMANTASINGHARNCO · NCO7221.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- SWAflipped
- SWA–INC swing
- +31.8%
- SWA share
- 6.8% → 41.6%
- INC share
- 33.7% → 36.7%
- Turnout
- — → —