Constituency
20. Dhamnagar
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1974
OD-DHAMNAGAR
UTC 42.9%won by 1.4%INC 41.5%
What changed here
DerivedUTC held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.6% to 1.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Multi-cornered3 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
50,762
Margin
713
1.40%
Candidates
3 contested · winner UTC- 1HRUDANANDA MALLICKUTC · UTC21,79542.9%
- 2JAGANANTH ROUTIndian National Congress · INC21,08241.5%
- 3PRAFULLA CHANDRA SAMALIndependent · IND7,88515.5%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- UTC
- Winner now
- UTC
- UTC–INC swing
- −11.2%
- UTC share
- 50.0% → 42.9%
- INC share
- 37.4% → 41.5%
- Turnout
- — → —