Constituency
16. Simulia
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1980
OD-SIMULIA
JNP 28.3%won by 7.4%INC 20.9%
What changed here
DerivedJanata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.5% to 7.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 49.3% between them, down from 66.6% — 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
39,894
Margin
2,946
7.38%
Candidates
7 contested · winner JNP- 1PARSURAM PANIGRAHIJanata Party · JNP11,29728.3%
- 2GOPINATH DASIndian National Congress · INC8,35120.9%
- 3PURNA CHANDRA PANDACommunist Party of India · CPI8,13320.4%
- 4SAILAN MOHAPATRAIndependent · IND5,34013.4%
- 5PANCHANAN KHATUAIndependent · IND4,15610.4%
- 6KRUSHNA CHANDRA BEHERAIndependent · IND2,1015.3%
- 7GANESH PRASAD MOHANTYIndependent · IND5161.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- JNP
- JNP–INC swing
- −4.9%
- JNP share
- 39.0% → 28.3%
- INC share
- 26.7% → 20.9%
- Turnout
- — → —