Constituency
6. Kuliana
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1980
OD-KULIANA
INC 29.6%won by 9.4%IND 20.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 9.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 39.2% to 29.6% of the vote here (−9.6%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 20.2% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 49.8% between them, down from 86.3% — the field split more ways.
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
28,688
Margin
2,691
9.38%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1SARASWATI HEMBRAMIndian National Congress · INC8,49129.6%
- 2KANHU CHARAN SORENIndependent · IND5,80020.2%
- 3BIRAM MURMUINCU · INCU5,72520.0%
- 4NIRANJAN HEMBRAMJNPSC · JNPSC4,03114.1%
- 5PRAFULLA NAIKIndependent · IND2,6109.1%
- 6SAMAI KISKUJKD · JKD1,3614.7%
- 7ISWAR CHAPIARIndependent · IND6702.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- −29.8%
- INC share
- 39.2% → 29.6%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 20.2%
- Turnout
- — → —