Constituency
42. Gobindpur
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1974
OD-GOBINDPUR
INC 32.9%won by 3.2%UTC 29.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 45.7% to 3.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 24.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from JAC (JAC) to UTC (UTC).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 62.6% between them, down from 69.8% — 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
49,006
Margin
1,562
3.19%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1SUDHANSU MALINI RAYIndian National Congress · INC16,12332.9%
- 2MURALIDHAR KANUNGOUTC · UTC14,56129.7%
- 3KALPATARU ROUTIndependent · IND5,28910.8%
- 4BANSIDHAR DASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,8409.9%
- 5NARENDRA KUMAR MOHANTYIndependent · IND4,5299.2%
- 6TRILOCHAN KHUNTIANCO · NCO3,6647.5%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–UTC swing
- −45.7%
- INC share
- 57.7% → 32.9%
- UTC share
- 8.8% → 29.7%
- Turnout
- — → —