Constituency
56. Begunia
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1971
OD-BEGUNIA
CPI 35.1%won by 8.8%UTC 26.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.7% to 8.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerUTC (UTC) finished second with 26.3% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.4% between them, down from 88.7% — 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
43,275
Margin
3,789
8.76%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPI- 1GANGADHARA PAIKARAYCommunist Party of India · CPI15,18735.1%
- 2SATYANANDA CHAMPATIRAYUTC · UTC11,39826.3%
- 3BHASKARA MAHAPATRAIndependent · IND8,49219.6%
- 4GOURISHYAM PATTANAYAKIndian National Congress · INC5,07911.7%
- 5RAJRAJ DEBSwatantra Party · SWA3,1197.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–UTC swing
- −37.0%
- CPI share
- 45.7% → 35.1%
- UTC share
- 0.0% → 26.3%
- Turnout
- — → —