Constituency
111. Bijepur
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1971
OD-BIJEPUR
INC 28.5%won by 4.8%SOP 23.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 6.4% to 4.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 23.7% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 52.2% between them, down from 62.5% — 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
25,045
Margin
1,210
4.83%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1TRIBIKRAM MALLICKIndian National Congress · INC7,13828.5%
- 2KESI DIPSOP · SOP5,92823.7%
- 3BAHADUR MAHANANDSwatantra Party · SWA3,62914.5%
- 4MOHAN NAGUTC · UTC3,52614.1%
- 5LABA SETHCommunist Party of India · CPI1,7477.0%
- 6PRATAP CHANDRA TANDIBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,0004.0%
- 7NILANCHAL MALLICKIndependent · IND8873.5%
- 8BIDYA DHAR DIPNCO · NCO8443.4%
- 9SOUKILAL CHHURIAIndependent · IND3461.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SOP swing
- −29.6%
- INC share
- 34.5% → 28.5%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 23.7%
- Turnout
- — → —