Constituency
12. Jaleswar
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1980
OD-JALESWAR
JNP 38.0%won by 12.9%INC 25.1%
What changed here
DerivedJanata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 33.0% to 12.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 24.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 63.1% between them, down from 91.8% — the field split more ways.
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Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
64,080
Margin
8,278
12.92%
Candidates
6 contested · winner JNP- 1GADADHAR GIRIJanata Party · JNP24,36538.0%
- 2JAYANARAYAN MOHANTYIndian National Congress · INC16,08725.1%
- 3KUMAR CHAKRAVERTYIndependent · IND12,91920.2%
- 4HIMANSU SEKHAR NANDICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM9,46814.8%
- 5NARAYAN SORENIndependent · IND6751.1%
- 6ANANTA PRASAD SAHUINCU · INCU5660.9%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- JNP
- JNP–INC swing
- −20.1%
- JNP share
- 62.4% → 38.0%
- INC share
- 29.4% → 25.1%
- Turnout
- — → —