Constituency
27. Barchana
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1980
OD-BARCHANA
INC 54.9%won by 36.3%JNPSC 18.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 36.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 35.6% to 54.9% of the vote here (+19.3%).
- New challengerJNPSC (JNPSC) finished second with 18.6% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.6% between them, down from 79.3% — 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
63,928
Margin
23,211
36.31%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1SITAKANTA MOHAPATRAIndian National Congress · INC35,12154.9%
- 2MANAGOBINDA SAMALJNPSC · JNPSC11,91018.6%
- 3DHUSASAN JENACommunist Party of India · CPI11,10817.4%
- 4AMAR PRASAD SATPATHYJanata Party · JNP3,3205.2%
- 5BAIDHAR DASIndependent · IND1,0561.7%
- 6SARAT KUMAR NAIKIndependent · IND7911.2%
- 7PRAMOD KUMAR CHOUDHURYIndependent · IND6221.0%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JNPSC swing
- +0.7%
- INC share
- 35.6% → 54.9%
- JNPSC share
- 0.0% → 18.6%
- Turnout
- — → —