Constituency
96. Dharamgarh
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1974
OD-DHARAMGARH
SWA 58.8%won by 34.5%INC 24.2%
What changed here
DerivedSwatantra Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 33.9% to 34.5%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 83.0% of the vote between them, up from 74.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatSwatantra Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
30,264
Margin
10,455
34.55%
Candidates
5 contested · winner SWA- 1DAYANIDHI NAIKSwatantra Party · SWA17,79458.8%
- 2RANSAI NAIKIndian National Congress · INC7,33924.2%
- 3GANGARAM JAGATJAC · JAC3,25810.8%
- 4JADU PANIGRAHINCO · NCO1,2904.3%
- 5ANIRUDDHA MAHANANDIndependent · IND5831.9%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- SWA
- Winner now
- SWA
- SWA–INC swing
- +0.7%
- SWA share
- 54.1% → 58.8%
- INC share
- 20.2% → 24.2%
- Turnout
- — → —