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114. Sambalpur

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Odisha Assembly Election, 1971

OD-SAMBALPUR

INC 48.8%won by 30.6%SWA 18.1%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.2% to 30.6%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 66.9% of the vote between them, up from 57.0% — 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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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
33,218
Margin
10,176
30.63%

Candidates

7 contested · winner INC
  1. 1SRIBALLAV PANIGRAHIIndian National Congress · INC16,19448.8%
  2. 2BISHNUPRASAD MISRASwatantra Party · SWA6,01818.1%
  3. 3SARAT CHANDRA PUJARIUTC · UTC4,02812.1%
  4. 4DAYANANDA SATPATHYCommunist Party of India · CPI3,39210.2%
  5. 5DAYA SAGAR NANDABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,7515.3%
  6. 6MANGARAJ SENAPATIPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,2453.7%
  7. 7LALUCHATRAPALIndependent · IND5901.8%

Since 1967

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INC–SWA swing
+21.4%
INC share
33.1% → 48.8%
SWA share
23.9% → 18.1%
Turnout
— → —
113. Bargarh115. Brajarajnagar
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