Constituency
55. Khurda
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1971
OD-KHURDA
INC 43.3%won by 22.1%UTC 21.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: JAC (JAC) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 22.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 27.1% to 43.3% of the vote here (+16.2%).
- New challengerUTC (UTC) finished second with 21.2% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.4% between them, down from 76.5% — 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
39,059
Margin
8,633
22.10%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1BENUDHAR BALIARSINGIndian National Congress · INC16,90343.3%
- 2BIJU PATNAIKUTC · UTC8,27021.2%
- 3RAJAKI SHORA RAMJAC · JAC6,33416.2%
- 4SASHISEKHAR MOHAPATRACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,7389.6%
- 5RAMACHANDRA MISRACommunist Party of India · CPI2,2075.7%
- 6TUKU MOHANTYIndependent · IND1,2273.1%
- 7GOBINDA CHANDRA PATNAIKSwatantra Party · SWA3801.0%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- JAC
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–UTC swing
- −4.9%
- INC share
- 27.1% → 43.3%
- UTC share
- 0.0% → 21.2%
- Turnout
- — → —