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17. Nilgiri

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Odisha Assembly Election, 1980

OD-NILGIRI

INC 43.4%won by 8.8%CPM 34.6%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 8.8%.

  • INC vote shareINC went from 15.3% to 43.4% of the vote here (+28.2%).
  • Multi-cornered4 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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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
53,265
Margin
4,684
8.79%

Candidates

7 contested · winner INC
  1. 1AKSHAYA KUMAR ACHARYAIndian National Congress · INC23,13943.4%
  2. 2BANAMALI DASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM18,45534.6%
  3. 3HEMENDRANATH DASJNPSC · JNPSC4,1707.8%
  4. 4CHITTARANJAN SARANGIINCU · INCU3,8087.1%
  5. 5MANGALA HEMBRAMJKD · JKD1,7833.3%
  6. 6PURNA CHANDRA PANDAIndependent · IND1,3852.6%
  7. 7BAISHNAB CHARAN BAGUDAIIndependent · IND5251.0%

Since 1977

Derived
Winner then
JNP
Winner now
INCflipped
INC–CPM swing
+29.8%
INC share
15.3% → 43.4%
CPM share
36.3% → 34.6%
Turnout
— → —
16. Simulia18. Bhandaripokhari
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