Constituency
102. Tusra
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1971
OD-TUSRA
SWA 66.3%won by 50.3%UTC 16.0%
What changed here
DerivedSwatantra Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 57.0% to 50.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerUTC (UTC) finished second with 16.0% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.3% between them, down from 94.7% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
26,396
Margin
13,264
50.25%
Candidates
5 contested · winner SWA- 1RADHAMOHAN MISRASwatantra Party · SWA17,49866.3%
- 2BIDHU BHUSHAN GURUUTC · UTC4,23416.0%
- 3SARAT CHANDRA PANIGRAHIPraja Socialist Party · PSP2,3168.8%
- 4GHANASHYAM BEHERAIndependent · IND1,3505.1%
- 5CHANDRA BADAN SHARMAIndependent · IND9983.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SWA
- Winner now
- SWA
- SWA–UTC swing
- −25.6%
- SWA share
- 75.9% → 66.3%
- UTC share
- 0.0% → 16.0%
- Turnout
- — → —