Constituency
66. Bhanjanagar
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1974
OD-BHANJANAGAR
INC 45.6%won by 2.4%UTC 43.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.0% to 2.4%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.7% of the vote between them, up from 81.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- 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
49,884
Margin
1,209
2.42%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1SOMNATH RATHIndian National Congress · INC22,73545.6%
- 2JAMI SUBARAO PRUSTYUTC · UTC21,52643.2%
- 3MADHUSUDAN PADHYIndependent · IND3,7657.5%
- 4MANDAKINI DASIndependent · IND1,8583.7%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–UTC swing
- −4.5%
- INC share
- 44.4% → 45.6%
- UTC share
- 37.4% → 43.2%
- Turnout
- — → —