Constituency
29. Binjharpur
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1974
OD-BINJHARPUR
INC 44.7%won by 1.5%UTC 43.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 27.3% to 1.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.8% of the vote between them, up from 73.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
41,437
Margin
619
1.49%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1BAISHMAB CHARAN MALIKIndian National Congress · INC18,50744.7%
- 2BIRAJA PRASAD MALIKUTC · UTC17,88843.2%
- 3PABITRA MOHAN JENAIndependent · IND1,9724.8%
- 4JAGABANDHU MALIKIndependent · IND1,6884.1%
- 5GANANATH JENAIndependent · IND1,0082.4%
- 6RANGALATA DEVINCO · NCO3740.9%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–UTC swing
- −25.8%
- INC share
- 50.5% → 44.7%
- UTC share
- 23.2% → 43.2%
- Turnout
- — → —