Constituency
62. Bhanjanagar
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1971
OD-BHANJANAGAR
INC 44.4%won by 7.0%UTC 37.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.7% to 7.0%.
- New challengerUTC (UTC) finished second with 37.4% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 81.8% of the vote between them, up from 63.9% — 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
40,034
Margin
2,791
6.97%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1SOMNATH RATHIndian National Congress · INC17,77844.4%
- 2BIJAYANANDA PATNAIKUTC · UTC14,98737.4%
- 3RAMESH KUMAR SAMALASwatantra Party · SWA6,41016.0%
- 4PREMALATA PATA NAYAKIndependent · IND8592.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–UTC swing
- −34.8%
- INC share
- 41.8% → 44.4%
- UTC share
- 0.0% → 37.4%
- Turnout
- — → —