Constituency
49. Balipatna
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1974
OD-BALIPATNA
UTC 40.2%won by 0.7%INC 39.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to UTC (UTC), which now leads by 0.7%.
- UTC vote shareUTC went from 19.9% to 40.2% of the vote here (+20.2%).
- Knife-edgeDecided by 227 votes (0.66%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- 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
34,211
Margin
227
0.66%
Candidates
7 contested · winner UTC- 1GOPINATH BHOIUTC · UTC13,73940.2%
- 2BASANTA BEHERAIndian National Congress · INC13,51239.5%
- 3SATYABADI BHOIIndependent · IND4,02011.8%
- 4DEBA SETHIIndependent · IND1,2203.6%
- 5SARBESWAR BHOIIndependent · IND7202.1%
- 6HARIHARA BHOIIndependent · IND6972.0%
- 7SUBALA MALIKJAC · JAC3030.9%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- UTCflipped
- UTC–INC swing
- +41.9%
- UTC share
- 19.9% → 40.2%
- INC share
- 61.2% → 39.5%
- Turnout
- — → —