Constituency
108. Kantabanji
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1971
OD-KANTABANJI
SWA 58.0%won by 41.5%INC 16.5%
What changed here
DerivedSwatantra Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 23.1% to 41.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.5% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
20,306
Margin
8,433
41.53%
Candidates
5 contested · winner SWA- 1ACHYUTANAND MAHANANDSwatantra Party · SWA11,77958.0%
- 2JOGINDRA BHOIIndian National Congress · INC3,34616.5%
- 3BHAGIRATHI BAGUTC · UTC2,74513.5%
- 4MURALI DHAR RAYIndependent · IND1,4237.0%
- 5GAJINDRA TANDIIndependent · IND1,0135.0%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SWA
- Winner now
- SWA
- SWA–INC swing
- +18.4%
- SWA share
- 61.6% → 58.0%
- INC share
- 38.4% → 16.5%
- Turnout
- — → —