Constituency
70. Dura
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1971
OD-DURA
INC 57.8%won by 42.8%SWA 15.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 20.3% to 42.8%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 72.9% of the vote between them, up from 59.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered5 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
26,864
Margin
11,490
42.77%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1MOHAN NAYAKIndian National Congress · INC15,53257.8%
- 2MOHAN BEHERASwatantra Party · SWA4,04215.0%
- 3SOMANATH BEHERAUTC · UTC3,81214.2%
- 4ANANTA DASJAC · JAC1,8426.9%
- 5KUNJBIHARI BEHERAFBL · FBL1,6366.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SWA swing
- +22.4%
- INC share
- 40.1% → 57.8%
- SWA share
- 19.8% → 15.0%
- Turnout
- — → —