Constituency
107. Kantabanji
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1974
OD-KANTABANJI
SWA 49.3%won by 28.6%INC 20.8%
What changed here
DerivedSwatantra Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 41.5% to 28.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Safe seatSwatantra Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered5 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
27,997
Margin
7,998
28.57%
Candidates
6 contested · winner SWA- 1RAMPRASAD MISRASwatantra Party · SWA13,81449.3%
- 2ACHYUTANAND MAHANANDIndian National Congress · INC5,81620.8%
- 3RAMKISHAN JAINBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS4,26215.2%
- 4MAHABIR PRASAD DODAKAIndependent · IND1,5535.5%
- 5MAHADEBA MAJHIIndependent · IND1,4975.3%
- 6JAGADANAND CHAUHANIndependent · IND1,0553.8%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- SWA
- Winner now
- SWA
- SWA–INC swing
- −13.0%
- SWA share
- 58.0% → 49.3%
- INC share
- 16.5% → 20.8%
- Turnout
- — → —