Constituency
103. Bolangir
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1971
OD-BOLANGIR
SWA 65.6%won by 44.9%IND 20.7%
What changed here
DerivedSwatantra Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 54.4% to 44.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.3% between them, down from 95.5% — 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
31,857
Margin
14,301
44.89%
Candidates
4 contested · winner SWA- 1RAJINDRAN SINGH DEOSwatantra Party · SWA20,90465.6%
- 2JAGNATH PATNAIKIndependent · IND6,60320.7%
- 3NITYANANDA ACHARYAIndependent · IND2,3837.5%
- 4PITABAS PATELIndependent · IND1,9676.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SWA
- Winner now
- SWA
- SWA–IND swing
- −25.6%
- SWA share
- 75.0% → 65.6%
- IND share
- 4.5% → 20.7%
- Turnout
- — → —