Constituency
109. Saintala
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1974
OD-SAINTALA
SWA 71.2%won by 50.6%INC 20.5%
What changed here
DerivedSwatantra Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 38.9% to 50.6%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.7% of the vote between them, up from 72.1% — 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
33,320
Margin
16,876
50.65%
Candidates
4 contested · winner SWA- 1KRUSHNA CHANDRA PANDASwatantra Party · SWA23,70871.2%
- 2RAMESH CHANDRA SINGH BHOIIndian National Congress · INC6,83220.5%
- 3DHANESWAR BHOIIndependent · IND1,8445.5%
- 4KALARMATHI RANAIndependent · IND9362.8%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- SWA
- Winner now
- SWA
- SWA–INC swing
- +11.7%
- SWA share
- 55.5% → 71.2%
- INC share
- 16.6% → 20.5%
- Turnout
- — → —